Williams v. Meridian Light & Ry. Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Sam Whitman, Jr., Chancellor. Suit hy F. W. Williams and others against the Meridian Light & Bailway Company and others. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the hill of complaint, complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. Sam Whitman, Jr., Chancellor. Suit hy F. W. Williams and others against the Meridian Light & Bailway Company and others. From a judgment sustaining a demurrer to the hill of complaint, complainant appeals. In March, 1912, appellants filed a bill in chancery, alleging that they are the abutting owners on Eighth street, the most popular and populous residence street in the city of Meridian; that said street is thirty-six feet wide between the curbs, and that the defendant street railway company operated a single track in the middle of…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, C. Jl,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The case presented to us for decision is that made by the bill and the last amendment thereto, for all questions eliminated from the bill by the various 'amendments thereto are waived although such amendments were made in order to meet the rulings of the court in response to demurrers (31 Cyc. 465; Brasfield v. French, 59 Miss. 632), so that no question raised in the court below by any of appellee’s various demurrers, other than the last, will be here considered. Three of the remaining questions referred to in the brief of counsel for appellant…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- King v. Vicksburg Railway & Light Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1906
- B'ham Ry. L. & P. Co. v. SmyerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1913
- White v. Corporation of Yazoo CityMississippi Supreme Court · 1854
- Slaughter v. Meridian Light & Railway Co.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1909
- Brasfield v. FrenchMississippi Supreme Court · 1882
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