Illinois Central R. v. Louisiana Public Service Commission

The City of Harahan, the Police Jury, of Jefferson Parish and the Louisiana Highway Department sought to obtain a right of way over the lands of the Illinois Central Railroad. They desired to impose a servitude of way without the payment of compensation. The Illinois Central Railroad resisted such demand on the ground that neither the City of Harahan nor the Police Jury of Jefferson Parish invoked the due process of law clause of the Louisiana Constitution of 1921 for the obtaining of a dedication of a street over and across its tracks, and that the Louisiana Highway Department, which has the…