Williams v. Atlantic Coast Line R.

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order granting an injunction. The complainant in the court below was the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, a corporation of the state of Virginia, and the defendant was the town of Mullins, S. C. The jurisdiction of the court was based on diversity of citizenship. The bill prayed that the town be enjoined from laying hard-surface paving upon certain portions of streets alleged to be within the right of way of the railroad. The town filed answer, denying the title of the railroad to the land in controversy, setting up title in itself by…