Schmidt v. City of New Orleans

Plaintiff is the owner of a certain lot of ground in the city of New Orleans, with improvements thereon, measuring about 48 feet front on North Rampart between Kentucky and Manuel streets (St. Claude in the rear), by 126 feet in depth.

In November, 1918, the Public Belt Railroad Commission, functioning as an agency of the city government, and operating a belt railroad for account of said city, took and appropriated, for railroad track purposes, a certain triangular portion of ground off the east front corner of said lot, measuring 5 feet along the front and the same along the side, which said…