Lawson v. Shreveport Waterworks Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court, Parish of Caddo; Alfred Dillingham Land, Judge. Action hy Henry J. Lawson against the Shreveport Waterworks Company. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals, and plaintiff, hy answer filed, asks for an increased judgment.
1Opinion
On Rehearing.
(Nov. 30, 1903.)
Statement of the Case.
MONROE, J.
For many years the main and only country road leading northwest from Shreveport was the Tim Mooring and Shreveport road, travelers upon which passed over Cross Bayou at Isaac Bell’s, as indicated on the subjoined sketch.
A few years since (several witnesses say two or three years prior to April, 1902, and one says six or seven years prior to that date) a ferry, which was afterwards made free, was established on the bayou some distance to the westward of Bell’s; and whether because it was free and Bell’s was not, or because it…
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- Tomle v. HamptonIllinois Supreme Court · 1889
- Torres v. FalgoustSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1885
- DeGrilleau v. FrawleySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1895
- McCearley v. LemennierSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1888
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