Louisiana Southern Railway Co. v. Gore

BARNETTE, Judge.

Louisiana Southern Railway Company brought expropriation proceedings against William P. Weber and Mrs. Jean Kay Weber, his wife, for a railroad right-of-way across property owned by them. A companion suit was filed at the same time to expropriate a right-of-way across the adjoining property owned by Edward Joseph Gore and his wife, Connie Lucille Cowart Gore. The cases were consolidated for trial below and on appeal in this court. The proposed 100-foot right-of-way contains 1.-005 acres of the Weber property and 1.169 acres of the Gore property.

The judgments below granted the…