134 Ga. 656 | Ga. | 1910
(After stating the facts.) Under the conveyance from the Germania Loan & Banking Company to the Atlanta Bapid Transit Company, the predecessor in title of the defendant company, the latter acquired the right of way over the strip of land described in that deed, and had a right to construct and operate a line of railway with single or double tracks over the same; and in order to do this, the railway company had the right to make such excavations opposite the southern boundary of the plaintiff’s lot, for the adaptation of the grade of its line of railway at that place to the grade of other portions of its tracks, as might be dictated by reasons of economy, convenience, and safetjr; and if in doing this they did not invade the property rights of the -plaintiff, she would have no ground o£ complaint. Under-the
Judgment affirmed.