Mayor of Columbus v. Rodgers
Supreme Court of Alabama
Writ of Error to the Court of Chancery sitting in Russel. The plaintiffs in error alledge in their bill, that the city of Columbus was first incorporated by the Legislature of the State of Georgia, by the name of the Xntendaut and Commissioners of the Town of Columbus, and “vested with certain powers, privileges and immunities,” among which was the right to hold real estate, to construct a bridge across the Chattahoochie, at or near ihe city, and have the exclusive right of…
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Writ of Error to the Court of Chancery sitting in Russel. The plaintiffs in error alledge in their bill, that the city of Columbus was first incorporated by the Legislature of the State of Georgia, by the name of the Xntendaut and Commissioners of the Town of Columbus, and “vested with certain powers, privileges and immunities,” among which was the right to hold real estate, to construct a bridge across the Chattahoochie, at or near ihe city, and have the exclusive right of demanding and receiving tolls for passing over the same. Afterwards, the corporate name was regularly changed to “ The…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
The act 1834, referred to in the bill, recites that the commissioners of the town of Columbus “have erected a bridge across the Chattahoochie river, opposite that city, and that the western abutment of said bridge rests upon the lands of Daniel McDougald, Robert Collins, James C. Watson and Burton Hepburn, within the chartered limits and jurisdiction of this State.” And thereupon enacts that the parties whose lands are thus encroached upon, and their assigns, are “ authorized to make and erect all things necessary to the permanent erection of the western abutment of said bridge, on their own…
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