Williams v. Judge of the Eighteenth Judicial District Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parlange, J.

Relators allege that seven suits for the expropriation of lands belonging oo them have been brought against them by the Laurel Valley & Rousseau Station Railroad Company, “ a pretended corporation claiming to have been organized under the laws of this State for public purposes, to-wit: to carry freight and passengers from the Laurel Valley plantation, in Lafourche parish, to and from Rousseau Station, a flag station on the Southern Pacific Railroad.” That the district judge endorsed on each petition an order allowing the same to be filed,…