Connell v. Yazoo & M. V. R.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; I-I. F. Brunot, Judge. Action by W. P. Connell, individually and as tutor, against the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company, which called in warranty the City of Baton Rouge. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
Front street, upon which the property of the plaintiff fronts, in the city of Baton Rouge, is along the river bank. Between it and the bed of the river is the public levee for protecting the low-lying parts of the city from overflow when the fiver rises above its banks. For many years, under franchises from the city, the defendant company has had its main railroad line on the top of this levee, and two service tracks between it and the line of properties fronting Front street and the river. As the level attained by succeeding floods in the river has risen, the levee has had to be enlarged ;…
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