Campbell v. Metropolitan Street Railroad

Simmons, Justice.

Campbell brought his action for damages against the defendant, in the city court of Atlanta, and alleged in his declaration, in substance, that he was the owner of a certain house and lot on Frazier street, in the city of Atlanta, which house had been occupied by him for five years past as a residence; that the defendant, within the present year, bad constructed and was operating a street railroad on said street; that the western rail of the track of said railroad was laid within thirteen inches of the curbstone on the petitioner’s side of the street, and in front of his lot;…