English Realty Company v. Meyer

McCALEB, Justice.

Plaintiff, a holding company for a common carrier known as Red Ball Freight Lines, instituted this suit under Article 699 of the Civil Code to obtain a right of passage across certain land, located in the city of Shreveport, owned in indivision by defendants, S. L. Meyer, J. M. Meyer, Mrs. Helene R. Meyer and C. E. Meyer, Jr. The salient facts upon which the cause of action is founded are as follows:

In December of 1950, plaintiff bought for .$120,000 an 18-acre tract lying immediately southwest of the right-of-way of the AllenDalzell-Linwood Overpass. This property is…