Lawrence v. Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Pochb, J.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment rejecting his demand in a petitory action for the recovery of several tracts and strips of land, situated in Morgan City, in the possession of the defendant company, and on which it has erected depots for freight and passengers, several railroad tracks, switches, workshops, coal yards, cattle pens and steamboat landings and wharves, all used for. the purposes of a common carrier, both by land and water.

Both parties claim title under Robert B. and Thomas T. Brash ear, who once owned the plantation from which…