Daly v. Georgia Southern & Florida Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Statutory construction. Municipal corporations. Encroachments. Streets. Railroads. Before Judge Richard H., Clark. Bibb county. At chambers, April 5, 1883. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
F. J. M. Daly, as trustee for his wife and children, and as guardian for Mary Dowd, and as a citizen and tax-payer of the city of Macon, filed his bill against the mayor and council of that city, against the Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad, and against the Macon Construction Company ; in which he alleged that the mayor and council of the. city of Macon had, by an ordinance or resolution, granted unto the railroad company, over the protest, of the complainant and other tax-payers and property-holders of the city, an encroachment eighty feet wide and four hundred and…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Kavanagh v. Mobile & Girard RailroadSupreme Court of Georgia · 1887
- District of Columbia Commissioners v. Baltimore & Potomac RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Hazlehurst v. FreemanSupreme Court of Georgia · 1874
- Kirtland v. Mayor of MaconSupreme Court of Georgia · 1881
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- Athens Terminal Co. v. Athens Foundry & Machine WorksSupreme Court of Georgia · 1907
- Davis v. East Tenn., Va. & Ga. Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1891
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