Cooper v. Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the chancery court of Pontotoc county. Hon. John Q. Robins, Chancellor. Cooper and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below and the railroad company, appellee, was defendant there. From a decree in favor of defendant the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court states the facts.
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From the chancery court of Pontotoc county. Hon. John Q. Robins, Chancellor. Cooper and others, appellants, were complainants in the court below and the railroad company, appellee, was defendant there. From a decree in favor of defendant the complainants appealed to the supreme court. The opinion of the court states the facts. The order of the chancery court in State v. Railroad* Co., 86 Miss. 172, 38 South. 732, referred to as exhibit to the answer in this present suit, does not require the appellee to remove the depot, and if the order of the Mississippi Railroad Commission, referred to as…
1Opinion of the Court
Brame,* Special Judge,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a decree dissolving an injunction and dismissing a-bill, which bill was filed in the court below July 20, 1908, by appellants to enjoin appellee, the Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad Company, from removing its depot from the present site in the western part of the town of Pontotoc to what is known as the old site near the center of the town, and where the old depot of the Gulf & Chicago Railroad Company *420was before it was destroyed by fire. Tbe history of the case is-substantially as follows:
The appellee…
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- State v. Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1905
- Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad v. MississippiSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Mobile, Jackson & Kansas City Railroad v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1906