City of Shreveport v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

ST. PAUL, Justice.

This is the same case which was before us under the name of City of Shreveport v. Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway Co. et al., 169 La. 1085, 126 So. 667.

The city filed separate suits against four railroad companies operating within the limits of the municipality to expropriate a right of way across their tracks for the purpose of opening Allen avenue from Texas street to Hoadley street, which avenue was blocked between said two streets by the tracks of the defendant railways, and prayed for juries of freeholders to assess the awards to be allowed to the defendants.

The…