SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY v. Hall

GOODWYN, Justice.

Appellee, J. T. Hall, brought a proceeding in the probate court of Winston County against appellant, Southern Railway Company, to acquire, pursuant to Code 1940, Tit. 19, §§ 56-58, a way of necessity from his lands across the railway company’s right of way and tracks to Alabama Highway No. 195. From a judgment in favor of appellee the appellant appealed to the circuit court (Code 1940, Tit. 19, § 17) where the case was heard without the intervention of a jury on evidence given ore tenus. The present appeal is from the judgment there rendered in favor of appellee and from the…