Young v. Harrison
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity, in Randolph Superior Court. Motion to dismiss the bill and dissolve the injunction, before Judge Warren. James Harrison and Samuel Harrison, as the administrators of William Oliver, deceased, filed their bill in Equity in the Superior Court of Randolph County, returnable to the October Term, 1848, in which they charged : That in the year 1835, James Harrison and Wm.
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In Equity, in Randolph Superior Court. Motion to dismiss the bill and dissolve the injunction, before Judge Warren. James Harrison and Samuel Harrison, as the administrators of William Oliver, deceased, filed their bill in Equity in the Superior Court of Randolph County, returnable to the October Term, 1848, in which they charged : That in the year 1835, James Harrison and Wm. Oliver, then in life, purchased of K. McKenzie, fractions Nos. 350, 354, 355, 356 and 381, and lots Nos. 316 and 324, in the 8th district of said County, containing 1007 acres, more or less, for the sum of $25,410 ; and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
The complainants in the bill charge that they, for a long time, have been, and now are, the proprietors of a ferry across- the Chattahoochee river ; that the defendants, under and by virtue of an Act of incorporation, granted by the Legislature of this State, in 1837, are about completing a toll bridge across the said river, near their ferry, which, if finished and put in operation, will very materially injure, if not entirely destroy, the value of their ferry. They further state, that they are the owners, of the land on the east or Georgia side…
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