Coleman v. Holden
Mississippi Supreme Court
Erom the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. James L. McOaskill, Chancellor. Coleman, the appellant, was the complainant in the court below; Holden and another, the appellees, were defendants there. Erom a decree favorable to the defendants the complainant appealed to the supreme court.
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Erom the chancery court of Lauderdale county. Hon. James L. McOaskill, Chancellor. Coleman, the appellant, was the complainant in the court below; Holden and another, the appellees, were defendants there. Erom a decree favorable to the defendants the complainant appealed to the supreme court. The bill of complaint prayed for an injunction to restrain the defendants from erecting a building in which to compress cotton bales on designated property in the city of Meridian, charging that the property comprises, certain streets of the city. A temporary injunction was issued, and the case was heard…
1Opinion of the Court
Whitfield, C. J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
This case is practically controlled by the principles announced by us recently in tbe case of City of Meridian v. Mrs. Rhoda Poole, ante, 108 (s.c., 40 South. Rep., 548). The only principle calling for enunciation in addition to what we there said is this: That a lessee, during tbe period of bis term, has all tbe rights, as to ingress and egress, as to obstructing or interfering therewith, as tbe owner in fee would have, except as to tbe extent of damage. See, as fully supporting this proposition, Coombs v. People (Ill.), 64 N. E. Rep.,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Proctor v. Hann. & St. Joe. R. R.Supreme Court of Missouri · 1876
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