Legal Opinion
Kahn v. Shreveport Railways Co.
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided June 4, 1935No. 5049PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLS, Judge.
Highland avenue runs north and south and is a main thoroughfare in the city of Shreveport. It is a four-lane street, 36 feet wide. The two middle lanes are almost wholly taken up by the double tracks of the Shreveport Railways Company, which operates, by means of trolley, a street railway on it. The two side lanes, unoccupied by the tracks, have each a width of 10.65 feet. The overhang of a street car reduces the clearance to about 9 feet. Columbia avenue crosses Highland, but the intersection is not coincident. That part of Columbia west of Highland is about 90 feet south of its…
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- Albert v. MunchSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1917
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- Brown v. WadeLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1933
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