Pontchartrain Rail-Road v. Orleans Navigation Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This case commenced by injunction. The Orleans Navigation Company and H. J. Ranney, Esq., were availing themselves of a provision in the charter of said company, to construct a rail-road, or two connected rail-roads, from a point in the city of New-Orleans to lake Pontchartrain, which, the plaintiff’s allege, is in violation of their exclusive privilege and right to make and use a rail-road from the city to the lake.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This case commenced by injunction. The Orleans Navigation Company and H. J. Ranney, Esq., were availing themselves of a provision in the charter of said company, to construct a rail-road, or two connected rail-roads, from a point in the city of New-Orleans to lake Pontchartrain, which, the plaintiff’s allege, is in violation of their exclusive privilege and right to make and use a rail-road from the city to the lake. The provision in their charter, under which the defendants were proceeding, is as follows : “ Sec. 13. The president and…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
The plaintiffs complained that the Orleans Navigation Company and H. J. Ranney, Esq., were violating their privileges and righls granted (o them by .the legislature, in attempting to construct a rail-road from the corner of Franklin and Toulouse streets, in New-Orleans, to lake Pontchartrain: and on showing that said defendants had already began to construct said rail-road, at or near the Basin Carondelet, the plaintiffs obtained an injunction, restraining and prohibiting the defendants from proceeding any further with said work.
*412The defendants severed in their answers. The Orleans Navigation…
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