Mayor of City of Savannah v. Harms

It is alleged in the petition in this suit, which was brought against a municipal corporation to recover damages, that the petitioner ' was the owner of a certain lot of land and the buildings thereon, said property being situated adjacent to the right of way of a certain railroad at the intersection of that road with Bolton Street in the corporate limits of the defendant municipality, which through its public works department furnished the grade and plans for the elevation of the track and road-bed of the railroad named, “incident to the building of the Gwinnett Street Subway, and, in order…