Legal Opinion
Cerniglia v. City of New Orleans
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided March 26, 1958No. 43548PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FOURNET, Chief Justice.
The defendant, City of New Orleans, is appealing from a judgment of the District Court awarding to plaintiffs, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Cerniglia, damages in the sum of $3,000 plus expert fees of $450 and costs, in their suit against the defendant to recover $25,000 because of alleged injury to their property on Canal Boulevard at the corner of Homedale Avenue in New Orleans, formerly operated by them as a drugstore, as the result of the construction of an underpass designed to eliminate a grade crossing of railroad tracks traversing Canal Boulevard at an angle and laid…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Rudolph Ramelli, Inc. v. City of New OrleansSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1957
- Patin v. City of New OrleansSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1953
- Thomas & Warner, Inc. v. City of New OrleansSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
3Cited by27 opinions
- Reymond v. State Ex Rel. Department of HighwaysSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1970
- Mini Togs Products, Inc. v. WallaceLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1987
- Sterkx v. Gravity Drainage Dist. No. 1 of Rapides Par.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1968
- State, Department of Highways v. SmithLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1972
- State ex rel. Department of Highways v. GarrickSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1971
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