Illinois Central Railroad v. Baldwin
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Madison county. IIoN. Robekt Powell, Judge. Baldwin, the appellee, was the plaintiff in the court below; the railroad company, appellant, was defendant there. Prom a judgment in plaintiff’s favor defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion sufficiently states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, O. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
It is expressly agreed that the lot marked 9 on the map containing the seventy-nine hundredths and twenty-two hundredths acres is the lot sued for, “and that lot manifestly is not on the south side of Otto street.” “On the- south side” of a street is a description that only fits a lot actually bordering the street on its south side, and the assessor testifies explicitly ■that the lot sued for, agreed on as above, is “not on the south side of the street,” but “south of the streetand, further, that “lot 9, south of Otto street, and fronting on…
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