Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. v. Mississippi Central Railroad

OPINION

DAVIDSON, District Judge.

Presently before the court is the matter of determining the Defendant Mississippi Central Railroad Company’s ownership interest in certain real properties where four of the Plaintiff Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company’s pipelines are located. 1 In addition, the court has before it the Defendants’ Eleventh Amendment challenge to this court’s jurisdiction, the Defendants’ motion to have a jury hear the title issues presently pending before the court, and the Defendants’ assertion that no federal subject matter jurisdiction exists in this cause.

After hearing argument…