Southern Railway Company v. Wages

Jenkins, Chief Justice.

The State Highway Board acquired from Jackson 'County as a State-aid road a certain highway, which the county had maintained as a part of its public-road system under an easement for more than twenty years, but had never acquired title to the rights of way. Subsequently, the State Highway Board undertook to relocate an approximately 3000-foot section of said road which ran through the community of Center, which section was bisected by a grade crossing across the Southern Railroad. Jackson County agreed, as contemplated by law, to pay the cost of any rights of way…