Chicago, St. L. & N. O. Ry. Co. v. Town of Amite City
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; Robert S. Ellis, Judge. Action by the Chicago, St. Louis & New Orleans Railway Company against the Town of Amite City. From judgment for defendant, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
Plaintiff alleged ownership and, actual possession for more than one year of a certain strip of ground 75 feet wide, east of the center line of its north-bound track, by about 1,600 yards in length, and that the authorities of the defendant town were at*743tempting to take possession of said strip for the purpose of converting it into a public street, and had trespassed on the same by constructing bridges across all the ditches and drains running from petitioner’s said track. Plaintiff further alleged that said municipal authorities had further trespassed on said strip by cutting plaintiff’s…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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