LaSalle Properties, Inc. v. Louisiana Power & Light Co.

BARRY, Judge.

This dispute arises out of an act of sale in 1952 wherein Illinois Central Railroad (ICRR) sold several parcels of land and created two servitudes. The servitudes were in favor of Louisiana Power and Light Company (LP&L) for a transmission line and to enter and cut trees and shrubs on each side of the power line. The property, situated in Jefferson Parish, was subsequently conveyed to plaintiff-appellee, La-Salle Properties, Inc. (LaSalle), a subsidiary of ICRR.

LP&L’s two servitudes cover (1) a thirty foot wide strip of land (fifteen feet on each side of the transmission line)…