Gulf & Ship Island Railroad v. Town of Seminary
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad v. Town of Seminary
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the -court.
That the Gulf & Ship Island Bailroad Company should have established on its line of road two stations named £ ‘ Seminary ’ ’ is shameful; but what legal concern this is to the town of Seminary we fail to see. The injury complained of is-that a person desiring to visit the town of Seminary is sold a ticket to Seminary and is put off at the station of that name, which is a half mile north of the point of. his destination, and thereby such person suffers inconvenience and loss in getting to the town of Seminary. A second injury is alleged to be that, when a merchant in the town of Seminary contracts with the railroad company for the shipment of goods to him, such goods are put off at the Seminary station most distant from him, to his inconvenience and loss. That these are actionable grievances to the merchant and traveler injured thereby we are strongly inclined to believe; but how does either of these wrongs constitute a legal wrong to the town of Seminary, as a public political corporation of the State of Mississippi ? If appellant should call its depot here in the city of Jackson by the name of £ £ Seminary, ’ ’ and thus have three depots of that name on its line of road, such conduct would be highly injurious to all persons affected thereby; but what power conferred upon the town of Seminary gives it the right of action in such case ? A right of action lies only in favor of
Reversed and remanded.
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