Legal Opinion

Kavanagh v. Mobile & Girard Railroad

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 26, 1887PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Damages. Nuisance. Municipal Corporations. Injunction. Columbus. Before Judge Willis. Muscogee County. At Chambers, July 24, 1886. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Blandford, Justice.

The plaintiff exhibited her bill in equity against the defendant, in which she alleged that the defendant, without authority of law, had laid down certain side-tracks on and along Thomas street, now called Ninth street, from Broad,, crossing over Front street, and used and occupied the same for their engines and cars; that she was the owner of a certain house and lot that she used as her residence, on the corner of Front and Thomas streets, and that by the noises and smoke of the engines of the defendant standing on the side-track, her property was damaged, in that, she was…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Coker v. BirgeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1851
  2. Georgia Chemical, Co. v. ColquittSupreme Court of Georgia · 1884
  3. DeGive v. SeltzerSupreme Court of Georgia · 1879

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. Austin v. Augusta Terminal Railway Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1899
  2. Gray Lumber Co. v. GaskinSupreme Court of Georgia · 1905
  3. Goble v. Louisville & Nashville RailroadSupreme Court of Georgia · 1938
  4. Johnson v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1907
  5. Hill v. McBurney Oil & Fertilizer Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1901

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