Louisiana Western R. v. City of Crowley
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; William Campbell, Judge. Suit for injunction by the Louisiana Western Railroad Company against the city of Crowley.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The defendant has appealed from a judgment annulling a municipal ordinance repealing a prior ordinance whereby the city had granted to the railroad company a right of way for a switch track over certain streets and on the waterworks property of the municipality.
The town of Crowley was incorporated in 1894 by the adoption of a charter by the inhabitants according to the provisions of Act No. 49 of 1882, p. CO. Among the .provisions of the charter, the municipality was authorized to acquire and own property of any kind, and to sell, lease, farm out, -or otherwise dispose of the same. A…
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