Patin v. City of New Orleans

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendant, City of New Orleans, is appealing from a judgment of the District Court awarding to plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Patin, damages in the sum of $2,500 in their suit against the defendant to recover $25,000 because of alleged injury to their property at the corner of Franklin Avenue and Industry Street in New Orleans, formerly operated and leased by them as an oil station and auto repair shop, as a result of the construction of an overpass on Franklin Avenue (spanning certain railroad tracks which cross Franklin Avenue at an intersection a block…