Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Cross

1. This court has jurisdiction to entertain this case although title to land is incidentally involved therein. The language, “ in all cases respecting title to land,” as employed in the constitutional amendment of 1916, is construed by the Supreme Court as meaning where title to land is directly involved, and not where it is only incidentally involved. Elkins v. Merritt, 146 Ga. 647, 648 (92 S. E. 51). Thus, this court has jurisdiction of a ease where the owner of a lot of land situated on both sides of a right of way of a railroad company sues the company for damages on account of alleged…