83 Ga. 789 | Ga. | 1889
The trial judge did not err in grantmgthe injunction complained of in this case. Both, of these parties held under deeds which stipulated and agreed that the land was to be used for no other purpose than as an alley, ánd that it was to be kept open and used as an alley for the mutual benefit of the owners of the property on each side of the alley. Hnder these covenants in the deeds, we do not think that the defendants had any right to obstruct the alley “by building a wooden frame entirely across the same, and putting up hooks and slides of metal to hang and slide beef and fresh meat on,” as alleged in the complainants’ petition. The obstruction seems to have been erected by upright posts attached to the walls on each side of the alley, and cross-beams running from one post to another the whole length of the alley; and attached to these crossbeams was the slide, with hooks for the purpose of