The complainants were the owners of lot 12, of block 25, of the Caldwell survey of the city of Meridian, on which they had a storehouse and were engaged in the mercantile business. The storehouse faced Second street to the south and Twenty-Seventh avenue on the east. The tracks of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company crossed Twenty-Seventh avenue and Second street just opposite the corner of the store, running diagonally in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, and the railroad company had maintained a crossing on Twenty-Seventh avenue for many, more than ten, years. The railroad company owned a tract of land east of Twenty-Seventh avenue and south of its right of way on which it desired to construct roundhouses, a coal chute, and a largo number of side tracks ; and in order to more easily approach this lot it had purchased block 31, as shown by the accompanying plat, … Continue reading Mississippi Supreme Court Case (1908) Poythress v Mobile & Ohio Railroad