Railroad v. Bingham
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM SHELBY. Appeal in error from Circuit Court of Shelby County. L. H. Estes, J.
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, J.
Mrs. Bingham is the owner of a block of lots fronting on Sixth Street, Memphis, upon one end of which she has erected four frame dwelling-houses. At the time she sustained the damage, for which she sues, she was in receipt of a monthly rental of forty dollars from these houses. After her property had been thus improved, Sixth Street, including that part in front of her tenements, was occupied, by the Iron Mountain Railroad Company, by the construction thereon of two railway tracks, over which it passes its trains in reaching its depot in the city.
This suit was brought by her to recover…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Grand Rapids & Indiana R. R. v. HeiselMichigan Supreme Court · 1878
- Milburn v. City of Cedar RapidsSupreme Court of Iowa · 1861
- Moses v. Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago RailroadIllinois Supreme Court · 1859
- Hatch v. Vermont Central RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1852
- Elizabethtown, Lexington & Big Sandy Railroad v. CombsCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1874
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