Austin v. Augusta Terminal Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action for damages. Before ' Judge Eve. City court of Richmond county. August 31, 1898. Mary Austin sued the railway company for depreciation in the market value of her residence by the construction and operation of its railroad and' freight-yards. F.or a description of the relative situations of the premises, see the opinions following.
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Action for damages. Before ' Judge Eve. City court of Richmond county. August 31, 1898. Mary Austin sued the railway company for depreciation in the market value of her residence by the construction and operation of its railroad and' freight-yards. F.or a description of the relative situations of the premises, see the opinions following. She alleged that such depreciation had resulted by the company’s occupancy of Bay street in Augusta, and of the lot adjoining in the rear of her residence lot, by taking from her one of the ways of ingress to and egress from her property; by throwing its…
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
After this case had been regularly heard, it was ordered reargued on a question so framed as to embody the material points involved. An analysis of the evidence is, therefore,-not necessary, further than to explain the situation of the property and the claim of the plaintiff. Bay street in the city of Augusta is laid along the southern bank of the Savannah river. Cumming and McCartan streets run south from it, at right angles. The railroad runs down Bay, past Cumming street; by a spur-track it crosses a lot, owned by the company, at the corner of Bay and McCartan streets, and thence runs…
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