State v. Mayor of Mobile
Supreme Court of Alabama
On a writ of error to the Circuit Court of Mobile county, exercising Chancery jurisdiction. On the sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, a notice, signed by the solicitor of the first judicial Circuit, was issued to the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Mobile, informing them, that on the ensuing day, a bill, in the nature of an information, would be submitted to the presiding Judge of the Circuit Court, then in session,…
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On a writ of error to the Circuit Court of Mobile county, exercising Chancery jurisdiction. On the sixth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, a notice, signed by the solicitor of the first judicial Circuit, was issued to the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Mobile, informing them, that on the ensuing day, a bill, in the nature of an information, would be submitted to the presiding Judge of the Circuit Court, then in session, praying that the said Mayor and Aldermen might be restrained from the erection of certain buildings in Government Street,…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, J.
The solicitor of the first Circuit in behalf of the plaintiff in error, filed an information in Equity, in the Circuit Court of Mobile, in which it is alleged that Government street, in that *307city, was a public highway, previous to the first day of January, one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-one, subject to be used by all persons as such ; yet the same has been greatly obstructed, by the erection of several large houses therein; and that private property on that street, has been greatly injured and depreciated in value, by such erections.
It is further alleged, that the defendants have…
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