State ex rel. City of Lake Charles v. St. Louis, I. M. & S. Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; A. M. Barbe,, Judge. Action by tbe State, on tbe relation of tbe City of Lake Charles, against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company. From judgment for relator, respondent appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSommerville, J.
The city of Lake Charles is traversed on two sides, and on parts of the other two sides, together with spurs and switches connecting -with business places on both sides of the tracks, by the defendant company, the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company.
Other railroad companies appear to have similar privileges in and around the city.
The original ordinance granted to the Kansas City, Watkins & Gulf Railway Company, the predecessor of defendant, the right to lay tracks and to operate cars thereon; and, among other things, it was stipulated and agreed:
“That the said railroad bed…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- New Orleans & N. W. R. v. Town of VidaliaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1906
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