Legal Opinion
City of Thibodaux v. Louisiana Power & Light Company
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided June 21, 1957No. Civ. A. 6444PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.
The City of Thibodaux, operator of a municipally-owned electric utility plant, seeks.in these proceedings 1 to condemn facilities owned and operated by the Lorn isiana Power & Light Company in that section of the city recently acquired by extension of the city’s limits. Act 111 of 1900 2 is suggested as containing the authority .of the city to condemn these facilities.. In 1900, when Act 111 was passed by the Louisiana Legislature, the operations of utilities serving the cities of the State of Louisiana were usually com fined to the territorial limits of the…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Georgia v. City of ChattanoogaSupreme Court of the United States · 1924
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3Cited by9 opinions
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- City of Thibodaux v. Louisiana Power & Light CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- City of Thibodaux v. Louisiana Power & Light CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
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