Algiers Ry. & Lighting Co. v. New Orleans Ry. & Light Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Injunction by the Algiers Railway & Lighting Company against the New Orleans Railway & Light Company; the Gretna Light & Power Company filing a petition of intervention. Preliminary injunction denied, and plaintiff applies for a writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the CourtSommerville, J.
Plaintiff, as the successor of the Algiers Waterworks & Electric Company, sought a preliminary injunction against the defendant, as the successor of the New Orleans Railway Company of New Jersey, enjoining, restraining, and prohibiting the defendant company from selling or furnishing electric current, light, and power to any person other than the plaintiff company, in the Fifth district of the city of New Orleans and in the two adjoining parishes, Jefferson and Plaquemines, on the west bank of the Mississippi river, and especially from selling said electric current to the Consumers’ Electric…
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