New Orleans G. N. R. Co. v. Railroad Commission of Louisiana
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; I-I. F. Brunot, Judge. Action by the New Orleans Great Northern Railroad Company against the Railroad Commission of Louisiana. Judgment of dismissal, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement of the Case.
NICHOLLS, J.
The plaintiff, in its petition filed April 4, 1910, alleged:
That it is the owner of and is operating a line of railroad from the city of New Orleans, La., to the city of Jackson, Miss., with a branch line from Rio, in Washington parish, to and through the town of Franklin-ton, in said parish, to Tylertown, in the state of Mississippi, which branch line is known as the “Bogue Chitto Branch.”
That petitioner began to operate its said branch into the said town of Franklinton in the month of April, 1907. That at the time petitioner established and located its…
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