Stackhouse v. City of Lafayette

The appellant filed a complaint against the city of Lafayette, which, in substance, is as follows: That on the 15th of September, 1852, the defendant, by a public ordinance, (which is copied into the complaint,) under-the corporate name of the president and trustees of the town of Lafayette, did suffer and permit the New Albany and Salem Railroad Company to occupy and use a portion of Mississippi street, now called Fifth street, in said city, as a track for its road, and allowed said railroad company to keep and maintain a culvert where the railroad track on said street crosses “Pearl river,”…