Allard v. Orleans Navigation Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FOM THE PARISH COURT, FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action by a part of the shareholders in an association called the Pontchartrain Lake Road Company, against the defendants, claiming damages of them, for an infringement of a contract made with the plaintiffs, through and by Louis Allard.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FOM THE PARISH COURT, FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This is an action by a part of the shareholders in an association called the Pontchartrain Lake Road Company, against the defendants, claiming damages of them, for an infringement of a contract made with the plaintiffs, through and by Louis Allard. Allard shows, that he contracted with the defendants to make a shell road from the bridge on Bayou St. John, running on the north side of said bayou to the lake, for which he was to have the exclusive right of charging and receiving tolls for twenty-two years. That…
1Opinion of the CourtEustis, J.
Louis Allard and four others, sue the defendants, alleging that Allard contracted with them for thfe construction of a road on thé north side of the Bayou St. John, which they were authorized to make under the 18th section of their charter, in consideration of Allard’s having the tolls during the term of twenty-two years, which the company by law had a right to exact; that Allard performed his part of the contract; that he, afterwards, ceded a part of his interest under the contract, to certain persons who formed a private association, dividing the whole into one hundred and fifty shares, of…
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