McLemore v. Charleston & Memphis Railroad

This suit was instituted by the heirs of John C. McLemore to recover possession of a strip of ground, running east and west through the city of Memphis from a point near the Mississippi river, 2⅜ miles long and 100 feet wide, to the line of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad, and known in this record as “Broadway.” The prayer of the bill is for possession, for rents and profits, and general relief, including prayer for preliminary injunction preventing the various defendants from further occupying the ground for right of way-purposes, and from interfering with complainant’s possession.

*643In 1834,…