American Railway Express Co. v. City of Chattanooga

The American Railway Express Company, plaintiff below, has appealed from a judgment rendered in the circuit Court of Hamilton county dismissing its suit. Plaintiff sued to 1'ecover the value of a building erected by the plaintiff on property belonging to the State of Georgia and leased "to the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway.

Plaintiff alleges in its declaration that it was jthe owner of a warehouse which was located on a strip of land which the city had condemned to be used as a part of the extension of Broad street; that on or about May. 7, 1926, the defendant through its…