City of Laurel v. Rowell

Citations

• 84 Miss. 435

Syllabus

<p>1. Municipalities. Code 1892, 2945. Closing streets. Compensation. Abutting -property owners.</p> <p>Code 1892, § 2945, empowering municipalities to close and vacate streets, does not dispense with tbe necessity of compensating abutting property owners.</p> <p>2. Same. Constitutional law. Private property. Public use. Constitu-Mon 1890, sec. 17.</p> <p>Where a municipality closes and vacates an established street it deprives the owners of abutting lots of a right, which is property, and which cannot be taken except on due compensation being first made, under Constitution 1890, sec. 17, regulating the taking of private property for public use.</p>