Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad & Steamship Co. v. Board of Reviewers

Tiie opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The plaintiff company contests the correctness of the valuation of $10,000 per mile, placed by the defendant board on its property — embracing road-bed, rails, cross-ties and switches' — -and consisting of sixteen miles of main track, and nine miles of branch track, extending from the main track to the Avery salt works. It likewise contests, as a double and excessive valuation, that made on the *1157portion of tlie main track and siding which traverses the corporate limits of the cities of New Iberia and Jeanerette — contending that these…