New Orleans & Northwestern Railway Co. v. Linehan Ferry Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by Nicholls, C. J.

Statement of the Case.

Nicholls, C. J.

The plaintiff alleged lihat it was a railway corpora-

tion organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana, and of the State of Mississippi; that it entered into & certain contract with the defendant, a copy of. which was annexed to its petition, to transfer its engines, cars, passengers and freight across the Mississippi Eiver from Natchez to a point opposite; that by its terms, the contract would terminate on the 1st of November, 1900; that the right-of-way, road-bed, rails, fastenings, on both…