Southern Ry. Co. v. City of Greenwood

WATKINS, District Judge.

This matter comes before me upon a motion by the defendants for an order “requiring the Clerk of Court to place this ease on Calendar One for trial for the reason that the pleadings raise an issue of title to real estate, which under the Constitution and laws of the State of South Carolina is triable by a jury.” Complainant filed its bill in equity in which the essential facts to be considered in this motion, briefly stated and omitting formal jurisdictional averments and matters of mere historical detail, may be summed up as follows:

Southern Railway Company,…