Legal Opinion

Coker v. Birge

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 15, 1851No. 77PublishedCited by 32 opinions

Application for an injunction. Made to Judge Stark, at Chambers, and refused, December 23d, 1850. The bill states that the complainant became the purchaser of the Griffin Hotel, on Broadway, in the City of Griffin, on the 12th day of November, 1850; that the property is chiefly valuable from the fact of its being a hotel, and that it had been occupied and kept open for that purpose sinee the year 1843, and such was complainant’s object in purchasing the property — the value…

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Application for an injunction. Made to Judge Stark, at Chambers, and refused, December 23d, 1850. The bill states that the complainant became the purchaser of the Griffin Hotel, on Broadway, in the City of Griffin, on the 12th day of November, 1850; that the property is chiefly valuable from the fact of its being a hotel, and that it had been occupied and kept open for that purpose sinee the year 1843, and such was complainant’s object in purchasing the property — the value of the property is stated to be $3000 a year. The bill alleges that the defendant, about the 20th November, 1850,…

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court.

Warner J.

delivering the opinion.

This was an application to the Chancellor for an injunction to restrain the defendant from erecting a livery stable, fronting Broadway-street, in the City of Griffin, on the adjoining lot to the complainant’s hotel, and within sixty-five feet thereof. . The complainant had purchased the property expressly for a tavern, for which purpose it had been used since the year 1843, and *427was, at the time of the application for the injunction, in the use and occupation of the complainant as such; that the property is chiefly valuable from tire fact of the…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Water-Lot Co. v. BucksSupreme Court of Georgia · 1848

3Cited by32 opinions

  1. Austin v. Augusta Terminal Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1899
  2. Poultryland Inc. v. AndersonSupreme Court of Georgia · 1946
  3. Burditt v. SwensonTexas Supreme Court · 1856
  4. Kornoff v. Kingsburg Cotton Oil Co.California Supreme Court · 1955
  5. Judson v. L.A. Suburban Gas Co.California Supreme Court · 1910

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