Legal Opinion
Gumbel v. New Orleans Terminal Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 31, 1941No. 35541PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HIGGINS, Justice.
This is a suit by a landowner against the defendant railroad company to recover $24,-000, as compensation or the value of a part of the square of ground appropriated by the company in 1905 and on which it laid two switch tracks; and, in the alternative, for alleged damages to plaintiff’s property in the sum of $15,000, as a result of practically dividing the ground in two parts by laying the two switch tracks diagonally across it.
The defendant filed exceptions of no right and no cause of action and pleas of prescription of two years under Revised Statute, § 1479, as amended…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- St. Julien v. Morgan Louisiana & Texas RailroadSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1883
- Taylor v. New Orleans Terminal Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1910
- Gumbel v. New Orleans Terminal Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1937
- McCutchen v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1907
- Pons v. Yazoo & M. V. R.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
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3Cited by35 opinions
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- AK Roy, Inc. v. Board of Com'rs for Pontchartrain LDSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1960
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