Legal Opinion
Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Landry
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided July 31, 2013No. 2013-CA-0183PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Judge ROLAND L. BELSOME.
liThe defendants, Lawrence and Luann Landry, appeal the trial court’s judgment denying their motion to keep a walkway. We convert the appeal to an application for supervisory writs and deny the writ.
STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
Since 1882, the Alabama Great Southern Railroad has utilized a right-of-way near the railroad track it built on the south shore of Lake Ponchartrain. In particular, the deed provides that the right-of-way is “one hundred feet from the center of the road bed on either side of the road to be constructed by said Company.”1 In 2002, the…
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