Louisiana Ry. & Navigation Co. v. Sarpy
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of Jefferson; Jérome ’ Louis Gaudet, Judge. Action by the Louisiana Railway & Navigation Company against George Sarpy, to expropriate certain -land. ■ Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement.
MONROE, J.
Plaintiff seeks to expropriate, for the purpose of constructing thereon part of a continuous line of railway, extending from Shreveport to New Orleans, a strip •of land containing .about 5.86 arpents, 100 feet wide by, say, 1,200 feet in length, running through the St. Martin plantation, owned by the defendant and situated in the parish of Jefferson.
The record-shows that on July 24, 1905, the case having been called for trial, the following agreement was entered into between Mr. Sanders, of the firm of Foster, Milling, Godchaux & Sanders and Mr. Marrero, representing the…
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