Coguenhem v. Trosclair
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twentieth Judicial District Court, Parish of Lafourche; W. P. Martin, Judge. Action by Manuel Coguenhem against L. A. Trosclair, in which the Laurel Grove Company intervenes. Judgment for intervener, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
There being a sugar factory and a tramway system on the Laurel Grove plantation fronting on Bayou Lafourche, the owners of the plantation extended the tramway about a mile across six plantations likewise fronting on Bayou Lafourche and belonging to other persons; the object being to facilitate the transportation of cane to the factory. Eor making said extension they obtained a servitude of way across these plantations. Shortly thereafter they acquired the most distant of them, the Enterprise. This was some 19 years before the origin of the present controversy, and said tramway across said…
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