Leverett v. Middle Georgia & Atlantic Railway Co.

Atkinson, Justice.

It appears from the record, that in the year 1889 (see Acts 1889, p. 227) the General Assembly granted to the Eatonton and Machen Railroad Company a charter, by the terms of which it was authorized “to lay out, maintain and operate a line of railroad from the town of Eatonton in the county of Putnam, to the town of Machen in Jasper county, in this State.” By another section of the charter, this corporation was authorized to extend the main line of its railroad, “in as direct a line as practicable, to the city of Atlanta or the city of Savannah in any direction that may be…