Adair v. City of Atlanta

On Nelson street, in the City of Atlanta, is a. bridge, owned and maintained by the city, over numerous tracks of the Southern Railway Company and other railroad corporations. The approach to this bridge on the east over Nelson street from the corner of Nelson street and Madison avenue, is a gradual rise for a distance of several hundred feet, the street at the beginning" of the bridge being about thirty feet above the level of the railroad right of way. The land on both sides of Nelson street, between Madison avenue and the bridge, is owned by the Southern Railway Company. It is the purpose…