Grant to maintain turnpike road strictly construed in favor of public.

- Grant to a company incorporating them to construct and maintain a turnpike road, whether it be of property or franchises, is to be construed strictly in favor of the public, and nothing passes but what is granted in clear and explicit terms. Vernon Shell Rd. Co. v. Mayor of Savannah, 95 Ga. 387, 22 S.E. 625 (1895).

Authority to extend railroad into city not found.

- An Act authorizing a railroad "to extend their road from any point at or in the City of Savannah to the island of Tybee" does not authorize the railroad to extend their road into the city, in a direction differing from that to Tybee Island, and to lay their track through the entire length of one of the streets, with a grade requiring deep excavations and high embankments. Savannah, A. & G.R.R. v. Shields, 33 Ga. 601 (1863).

Am. Jur. 2d.

- 63A Am. Jur. 2d, Public Lands, §§ 3 et seq., 124.

C.J.S.

- 73B C.J.S., Public Lands, § 278.

ALR.

- Reservation in grant of land of right to hunt and fish with like right to the grantee, as limiting the right of the grantee actual owners of the land, 32 A.L.R. 1533.

Release of power of appointment of property, 76 A.L.R. 1430.

Width of way created by express grant, reservation, or exception not specifying width, 28 A.L.R.2d 253.

Validity and effect of provision in deed attempting to make reservation or exception in favor of grantor's spouse, 52 A.L.R.3d 753.

Liability for interference with franchise, 97 A.L.R.3d 890.