Farrell v. Hodges Stock Yards, Inc.

STOULIG, Judge.

Plaintiffs, Thomas C. Farrell, Jr., Joseph Merrick Jones, Susan Jones Lane and Eugenie Jones Huger, filed this suit to compel defendants, Hodges Stock Yards, Inc., Louisiana Southern Railway Company and the New Orleans Terminal Company, to *747remove all railroad tracks and appurtenances constructed across their property in St. Bernard Parish under two conventional servitudes which they allege have expired.1 Plaintiffs aver the rights-of-way, granted to permit cattlemen to move livestock to stockyards and slaughterhouses, had a dissolving condition which stipulated it would be…