Newman v. Louisiana A. Ry. Co.

Plaintiffs, being husband and wife, owned the northwest quarter (N.W. 1/4) of the southeast quarter (S.E. 1/4) and a strip containing six (6) acres off of the south side of the southwest quarter (S.W. 1/4) of the northeast quarter (N.E. 1/4), section 13, township 22 north, range 11 west, in Webster Parish, which is traversed northerly and southerly by the track of the Louisiana Arkansas Railway Company.

The railway company contracted with W.B. Delafield to restore its embankment through plaintiffs' property and elsewhere to standard crown widths, and work under this contract was done during…