Legal Opinion

Culligan Water Conditioning, Inc. v. Heirs of Watson

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided March 26, 1979No. 13836PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MARVIN, Judge.

This appeal of a declaratory judgment involves title to portions of a 150-foot strip of land in Shreveport on which a track was maintained by a railroad for more than a hundred years until it was removed about 1962. Plaintiff’s title, which was recognized in the judgment, stems from heirs of the person who owned the property when the railroad was built. Defendants, who are appealing the judgment, generally are owners of city lots abutting the strip whose claims or titles stem from the railroad and adverse possession.1 We affirm.

*131This case is somewhat of a sequel to Bray v. Boyd,…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. John T. Moore Planting Co. v. Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1908
  2. Pure Oil Company v. SkinnerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1974
  3. Jackson v. D'AUBINSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1976
  4. State Ex Rel. Department of Highways v. TuckerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1964
  5. Merritt v. HaysSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1959

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Johnson v. Kansas City SouthernDistrict Court, S.D. Mississippi · 2004
  2. Culligan Water Conditioning, Inc. v. Heirs of WatsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1979
  3. Opinion Number, Louisiana Attorney General Reports1991
  4. Opinion Number, Louisiana Attorney General Reports2004
  5. Robinson v. NunlyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 2011

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