Southern Railway Co. v. City of Elizabethton

The Southern Railway Company has appealed from a judgment of the circuit court of Carter county sustaining, as “valid and binding,” the levy of an assessment made by the City of Elizabethton, a municipal corporation, upon or against certain real property of the railway company for a part of the cost of the improvement of a street upon which said property abutted.

The “appeal” herein must be construed and treated as an appeal in the nature of a writ of error, as a simple appeal to this court does not lie from a judgment in an action at law. Spalding v. Kincaid, 1 Shan. Cas. 31; Manley v.…