Augusta & Summerville Railroad v. City Council
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition for injunction, etc. Before Judge Callaway. Richmond county. September 28, 1896.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Presiding Justice.
The Augusta & Summerville Railroad Company was incorporated by an act of the General Assembly, approved *704March 20th, 1866, “for the full term of thirty years.”' The charter declared that the company was incorporated for the purpose of 'building and using, with 'the consent of the City Council of Augusta, a horse railroad from a designated point within the limits of the city to a point, or points, outside of the same. The city council, both by ordinances- and by a special contract in writing, granted to the company, “'their successors and assigns, for and during the…
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