Thornton v. Connelly

The complainant, M. L. Thornton, sought by the bill in this case to obtain an injunction inhibiting and restraining the defendant R. G. Connelly from erecting a building* about eighteen feet wide and thirty feet long on a certain parcel of land in the village of Lyle, in Hickman County, Tennessee, to be used as a “filling station” for the sale of gasoline, lubricating oils, and other automobile supplies.

On final hearing, the Chancellor dismissed the bill at the cost of the complainant, except that he adjudged that defendant pay the cost of his own witnesses. The complainant appealed to the…