Yazoo & M. V. R. v. Teissier
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Saint James; Charles T. Wortham, Judge. Condemnation proceeding by the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company against Mrs. Noemie Teissier, wife of Charles V. Frey. Judgment for plaintiff condemning the land and for defendant for damages, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SOMMERVILLE, J.'
Plaintiff, alleging that its right of way on the front of defendant’s plantation has been encroached upon and destroyed by the levee board for the purpose of building a levee along the banks of the river, and that it is necessary for the purposes of carrying on its business to connect its line of rails which come up to either side of defendant’s.plantation, seeks to expropriate a piece of ground 3,410 feet in length by 60 feet in width, and containing 4.79 acres, which is described in its petition; and it asks for judgment condemning said strip of land for a sum to be fixed by…
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