Coe & Milsom v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Baxter, G. J.

The defendant corporation owns the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, and, in virtue of its purchase of the south-eastern lease of the Nashville & Decatur, and ownership of a majority of the capital stock of the Nashville, Chattanoga & St. Louis Railway Company, controls every railroad centering at Nashville. It has, for many years past, been engaged in carrying such freights as "are usually transported by rail, including live stock. Twelve or more years since, when it needed facilities for loading and delivering live stock, the complainants bought a lot contiguous to defendant’s…