Rapides Cent. Ry. Co. v. Missouri Pac. R. Co.

ROGERS, Justice.

The Rapides Central Railway Company, a Louisiana Corporation, brought suit against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, a Missouri corporation, 'and Guy A. Thompson, trustee in bankruptcy, to expropriate a crossing over the tracks and right-of-way of the defendant railroad company by the construction of an overpass or viaduct. Defendants excepted to plaintiff’s petition on the ground that plaintiff is without “qualification, capacity, right, power and authority to exercise the power of eminent domain or expropriation herein sought.” All of which, stated in simple language,…