Jones & Co. v. Venable

Francis Jones & Company, a partnership, had served upon W. H. and S. H. Venable, of DeKalb county, a notice under the Civil Code, §§4657 et seq., in which notice they stated that they had leased Rock Chapel Mountain, in that county, from its owners for the term of five years, and were engaged in quarrying granite from said property, and desired to con- ' demn, for the period of five years, under the provisions of the code, a right of way, fifteen feet in width, for a railroad across a described strip of land owned by the Venables, the railroad to run from Rock Chapel Mountain, where the…