Vicksburg v. LouisiAna & A. R.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Rapides; W. F. Blackman, Judge. Suit by the Vicksburg, Alexandria & Southern Railway Company against the Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
On Motion to Dismiss.
PROVOSTY, J.
[1] The plaintiff! company seeks in this suit to expropriate a servitude of passage for its railroad across the railroad of the defendant company. The appeal is by defendant, and motion is made to dismiss it on the ground that the amount involved falls below the lower limit of the jurisdiction of this court. That limit is $2,000, and the location of the desired crossing is in the open country where land is worth about $10 an acre, so that the land itself to be affected by the servitude is admittedly worth less than $100; but defendant claims $10,000 damages…
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