PEARSON v. CITY OF LOUISVILLE

No. 58340.

539 So.2d 1046 (1989)

Roy F. PEARSON, Appellant, v. CITY OF LOUISVILLE, Mississippi, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

February 27, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh Hathorn, Louisville, for appellant.

Frank M. Deramus, Jackson, for appellee.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, C.J., and PITTMAN and ZUCCARO, JJ.


PITTMAN, Justice, for the Court:

This case involves the construction of a reverter clause in a deed and whether or not the clause was triggered by an act of the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad. The City of Louisville sued Roy Pearson and the Illinois Central Gulf Railroad, alleging that the Railroad, in deeding the property in controversy to Pearson, had abandoned the property, thus triggering the reverter clause and causing the property to revert to the City, the...

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