Jones v. City of Hattiesburg

This appeal involves the question of the reasonableness of the action of the governing authorities of the City of Hattiesburg in refusing a building permit for the construction of a warehouse upon the right of way of. appellant railroad company, and in determining that such construction would be in violation of the city’s zoning ordinance.

The ordinance in question was adopted in 1941. For more than fifty years the railroad company, an interstate carrier, has owned a right of way through, the city which at, the point here in question is two hundred feet in width, and over which it has…