State ex rel. Tate v. Brooks-Scanlon Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Petition for injunction by the State of Louisiana, on the relation of C. M. Tate and others, against the Brooks-Scanlon Company and another. Exceptions to jurisdiction of district court overruled, and defendants apply for writs of mandamus, certiorari, and prohibition against the Twenty-Fifth Judicial District, parish of Tangipahoa and Hon. W. 6. Rownd, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtSommerville, J.
The state, on the relation of certain residents and taxpayers of the parish of Washington, sued out a mandatory injunction, enjoining, prohibiting, and restraining the two defendants from abandoning, taking up, removing, or doing away with any part of the railroad track owned by the Brooks-Scanlon Company, and leased by it to the Kentwood & Eastern Railway Company, and further prohibiting said railroad from abandoning or discontinuing the running of trains and giving service as had been given in the past between Kentwood in the parish of Tangipahoa and Hackley in Washington parish.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Railroad Commission v. Kansas City Southern Ry. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1903
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