City of Shreveport v. Texas & P. Ry. Co.

BRUNOT, Justice.

The above-entitled suits were instituted by the plaintiff, for the purpose of expropriating a right of way across the tracks and lands of the defendants, for the extension of Allen avenue from Texas street to Hoadley street, in the city of Shreveport. The necessity, vel non, of the expropriation, was first tried before the judge of the district court, and from an adverse judgment, on that issue, the defendants appealed, with the result that the judgments appealed from were affirmed by this court. See City of Shreveport v. Kansas City, Shreveport & Gulf Railway Co., 169 La.…