Adams v. Jackson Electric Railway, Light & Power Co.
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court, first district, of Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. Adams, state revenue agent, appellant, was the plaintiff, and the Jackson Electric Railway, etc., Co., appellee, was defendant in the court below.
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From the circuit court, first district, of Hinds county. Hon. Robert Powell, Judge. Adams, state revenue agent, appellant, was the plaintiff, and the Jackson Electric Railway, etc., Co., appellee, was defendant in the court below. The facts are these: In 1897 the city of Jackson granted to a company, designated as “The Jackson Railroad & Light Company,” of which one McKisson was the moving spirit, certain franchises looking to the construction of an electric light plant and street railroad system in the city, and the parties promoting the enterprise bound themselves to perform certain…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
From this record and the briefs of counsel on both sides, marked as these briefs are by signal- ability, two questions appear :
1. May money, the property of a city, the fruit of a forfeiture by one company of its contract to construct a street railway, etc., be donated by the board of mayor and aldermen to another company, on and after its completion of such work under a contract between it and the city, having no reference to that fund ?
2. May such money be recovered from such company so receiving such donation by the state revenue agent, for the use of such city?
*894After the most careful…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Adams v. Natchez, Jackson & Columbus RailroadMississippi Supreme Court · 1899
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