Tampa & Gulf Coast Railroad Company v. Mary A. Mulhern

BROWNE, C. J. -- On September 21st, 1915, Mary A. Mulhern filed her bill in equity in the Circuit Court of Pinellas County. Florida, in which she alleges that she is seized in fee simple of certain lots in the city of St. Petersburg, Florida, which abut on Second Avenue South, a public street of said city, and also the grounds included in the bed of Second Avenue South, adjoining and abutting on said lots to the center line of said street. That the Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad Company without authority or right, and without condemnation proceedings, and without compensating her therefor, entered into and upon said street and took possession thereof and constructed thereon and thereover a railroad track down the center of said street, and is operating a railraod by cars and trains drawn by steam engines, at intervals each day