Atlanta, Stone Mountain & Lithonia R. v. Bradley

John Bradley' sought to enjoin the Atlanta, Stone Mountain & Lithonia Railroad Company, as a trespasser, from constructing a spur-track over a narrow strip of his land. The defendant was chartered under the general law, by the secretary of State, as a commercial railroad company. When the petition for injunction was presented to the judge he granted an order, which, among other things, commanded the defendant to show cause at a designated time and place why injunction should not issue, and in the meantime restrained the defendant from committing the alleged wrong. After institution of the…