City of Nashville v. Lawrence

The purpose of this suit is to determine the ownership of the fee in a street which the city of Nashville proposes to abandon.

In 1880, the defendants’ ancestor, John M. Lawrence, owned a lot containing about one acre of land located on the north side of Broad street, and having a depth of about two hundred eleven feet.

This lot was bounded on the west by the property of the N. & C. Railway.

Walnut street extended south from Church street to about the center of the Lawrence propery. Lawrence thereupon dedicated a thirty-five-foot street through his lot to the city, thus extending Walnut street…