Crawford v. Mobile & Girard Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Municipal Corporations. Title. Commons. Laws. Powers. . Railroads. Columbus. Before Judge WlLLIS. Muscogee Superior Court.
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Municipal Corporations. Title. Commons. Laws. Powers. . Railroads. Columbus. Before Judge WlLLIS. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1881. Crawford et al., commissioners of commons of the city of Columbus, under the act of 1873, brought ejectment against the Mobile and Girard Railroad Company to recover the following land: “ A part of the commons, east of the city of Columbus, commencing on the extension of Bryan street, of said city, at the northeast corner of the land occupied by the Southwestern Railroad Company, and running east on the extension of Bryan street six hundred feet, thence…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
This is an action of ejectment brought by the commissioners of commons for the city of Columbus, appointed and empowered to control the said commons by an act of the general assembly of 1873, to recover from The Mobile and Girard Railroad Company a certain parcel of land, alleged to be part of the commons and to be illegally held *416by that company. The question is, are the plaintiffs entitled to recover, or in other words, is the title in them, or did it legally pass out of the city of Columbus into the defendant prior to the act of 1873 ?
Title was vested in the…
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