
    MAYOR ET AL. VS. HOPKINS.
    APPEAL PROM THE COURT OF TIIE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, JUDGE BUCHANAN PRESIDING.
    The sovereign authority in a state, can authorize the alienation of a public place destined for public use, when from the nature of its destination the public interest requires it.
    This case is decided on the same facts and principles, involved in the case of the Mayor et al. vs. Hopkins et al., ante 326.
    
      Canon, for plaintiffs.
    
      Preston, for the appellants and defendants.
   Eustis, J.

The facts of this case being the same as those in which an opinion has been just given, the judgment of the court below is affirmed, with costs in both courts.  