City of Meridian v. Hudson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Lauderdale county. Hon. J. L. Buckley, Judge. Suit by H. P. Hudson against the City of Meridian. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the circuit court of Lauderdale county. Hon. J. L. Buckley, Judge. Suit by H. P. Hudson against the City of Meridian. Prom a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. By Instruction No. 3 granted at the request and on behalf of the plaintiff the court told the jury that the plaintiff could not be estopped at all by anything he did or said, but that the sole question was as to whether or not his property had been damaged by reason of the grading and improving of “A” Street in front of his property. "We submit that such is not…
1Opinion of the CourtSykes, J.
■ Suit' was filed in the circuit .court- of Lauderdale county by H. P. Hudson, the appellee, against the city of Meridian;" for damages to real property owned by the appellee, caused by the grading and paving of A street, upon which appellee’s property fronts,.from Ninth to Eleventh avenue. A verdict for two hundred dollars was rendered in favor of the appellee, upon which judgment was entered, and from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.. The uncontradicted facts in this case show that thirty or forty years before the opening of A street, in front of the.block in which the property of…
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