Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Donalsonville Grain & Elevator Co.

Atkinson, Justice.

The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company has a railroad extending through the City of Donalsonville, Georgia. The railroad intersects with a street called Henderson Avenue. On each side of the railroad the street is sixty feet wide from curb to curb, but the crossing over the railroad is thirty feet wide, the eastern border thereof being in line with the eastern border of the street. The railroad existed before the municipality was incorporated or the street was laid out. For approximately thirty years the city has maintained the street, and the railroad -company has…