Justices of the Inferior Court v. Griffin & West Point Plankroad Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
In Equity. Application to Judge Stark for an injunction. The Justices of the Inferior Court of Pike County, for the use of the people thereof, applied to Judge Stark for an injunction against the Griffin & West Poipt Plankroad Company.
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In Equity. Application to Judge Stark for an injunction. The Justices of the Inferior Court of Pike County, for the use of the people thereof, applied to Judge Stark for an injunction against the Griffin & West Poipt Plankroad Company. The bill alleges that the company had proceeded to seize and appropriate to their use, the public road, leading from the City of Griffin, lo the Flat Shoals on Flint river, passing through three militia districts in the said County oi Pike; that by fraud and combination with the Commissioners of Roads in the said districts, the said Company had procured the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
Our duty in this case is, first to determine whether, according to the case made in the bill, the Plankroad Company in locating and laying out. their road, have acted within their charter ? In doing so, we are to hold the facts stated in the bill to be true. It was charged in the bill, and I believe was admitted in the argument, that they had located their road on one of the public roads of the County of Pike, through the whole extent of that road from the City of Griffin to the County line. That public road, it is charged, was laid out and…
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