Legal Opinion
Tuscaloosa County v. Alabama Great Southern R. Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided October 5, 1933No. 6 Div. 345PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, Justice.
The location of the United States Veterans’ Hospital some five miles north of Tuscaloosa increased traffic to such an extent, in the opinion of the board of revenue of Tuscaloosa county, as to necessitate a change of location of what is known as the Loop road, a public highway, where it crossed the tracks of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad Company at Box Springs cut. To this end the county instituted condemnation proceedings for the right of way and demanded of the railroad that it construct, at its own expense, a bridge over its tracks whore the new road crossed. This…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY v. STATE OF MINNESOTA Ex Rel. THE CITY OF DULUTHSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- State ex rel. City of Minneapolis v. St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Co.Supreme Court of Minnesota · 1906
- Askew v. Hale CountySupreme Court of Alabama · 1875
- Cincinnati, Indianapolis & Western Railway Co. v. City of ConnersvilleSupreme Court of the United States · 1910
- Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co. v. City of MilwaukeeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Sims v. FrinkDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1962
- Turquitt v. Jefferson CountyCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
- Ex Parte Sumter CountySupreme Court of Alabama · 2006
- Turquitt v. Jefferson CountyCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1998
- Moody v. FlowersDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1966
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