State ex rel. Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship v. Ellis

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard; J.

The relator presented a petition to the Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans, setting forth its creation and organization as a Louisiana corporation engaged in the operation of steam railway and steamship lines for the transportation of commodities the interchange of which constitutes interstate, foreign and domestic commerce.

That as part of and necessary to its transportation business it had established and maintains in the City of New Orleans freight and passenger depots, sheds, warehouses, buildings; ferries across the Mississippi…