Edwards Hotel & City Street Railroad v. City of Jackson
Mississippi Supreme Court
From: tbe chancery court of, first district, Hinds county. HoN. G-. Garlard Lyell, chancellor. The city of Jackson, appellee, was complainant in the court below; the street railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court.
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From: tbe chancery court of, first district, Hinds county. HoN. G-. Garlard Lyell, chancellor. The city of Jackson, appellee, was complainant in the court below; the street railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. From a decree in complainant’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. In 1909 the city began this suit praying for a mandatory injunction to compel the street railroad company.to pave its tracks on certain streets designated in an ordinance of the city. The railroad company claimed exemption from so doing under a contractual ordinance passed in 1906, by the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mayes, T.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This suit is begun by the city of Jackson, and its object is to' compel the street railroad company to pave between and two feet on each side of the rails. The street railroad company resists this effort on the part of the city on the contention that the city has no.authority to compel it to pave as above, because it has exempted the street railroad company from this requirement for ten years, beginning from 1906, and because the city has no power to compel the railroad company to make this street improvement. A bill filed by the city, praying for…
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