Cook v. North & South Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Railroads. Right of way. Deed. Evidence. Before Judge James Johnson. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1873. For the facts of this case, see the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Warner, Chief Justice.
This was a bill filed by the complainant against the defendant to compel the defendant, by a decree of the Court, to make certain stock or cattle gaps on its road which run through the complainant’s land where his fences joined the same, and also to build a bridge where defendant’s road crossed the complainant’s mill-road. The complainant alleges that the defendant promised to do these things before he executed to it a deed conveying the right of way through his land, for the consideration of $3,500 00, paid by the defendant to the complainant, the said sum being the…
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