Texas & Pac.-Missouri Pac. Terminal Railroad v. W. G. Coyle & Co.

This is an appeal from a judgment expropriating a square of ground in New Orleans between the levee and the Biississippi river. A part of the square is, in fact, in the river.

The plaintiff is a railroad corporation, operating terminal facilities in New Orleans, on the east and on the west bank of the river, for two trunk line railroads, namely, the Texas & Pacific Railway and the Missouri Pacific Railway. The terminal company operates transfer boats, on which it transfers both interstate and intrastate trains, carrying passengers, mail, express, and freight from one side of the river to the…