McCutchen v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Action by S. B. MeCutehen against the Texas & Pacific Railway Company. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
Plaintiff sues to recover a strip of land in Shreveport said to contain 00/ioo of an acre, of which defendant is in *437possession, or, in the alternative, to recover its value. Defendant pleads “no right of action,” the prescription of one, two, and ten years, and estoppel: The facts disclosed by the record are as follows, to wit:
In 1880, or 1881, the New Orleans Pacific Railroad. Company, which was, in June of that year, consolidated with defendant, apparently without expropriation or purchase, entered upon the strip of land here claimed, erected an embankment,…
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