Belzoni Oil Co. v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad
Mississippi Supreme Court
From tbe chancery court of Washington county, Hon. Perot Bell, Chancellor. Consolidated suits, in one the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company was complainant one Casslem'an, the president of the Belzoni Oil Company and the Delta Southern Railway Company, were defendants; 'in the other the Belzoni Oil Company was complainant and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company was defendant.
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From tbe chancery court of Washington county, Hon. Perot Bell, Chancellor. Consolidated suits, in one the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company was complainant one Casslem'an, the president of the Belzoni Oil Company and the Delta Southern Railway Company, were defendants; 'in the other the Belzoni Oil Company was complainant and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company was defendant. From a decree, seemingly unsatisfactory to all parties, the oil company and others appealed to the supreme court and the railroad company and others prosecuted a cross-appeal. The facts are fully…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The case made by the facts is as follows: The Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company has a line of railroad extending through the town of Belzoni, in Washington county, Miss., and early in the year 1900 S. Castleman applied to it for the construction of certain spur tracks to extend from its main line of railroad to the gin plant of the Belzoni Gin & Seed ■Company, in which he was largely interested, and to connect with the plant of the Belzoni Oil Company and a sawmill and ■other enterprises, all of which were then in contemplation,…
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