New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad v. McEwen & Murray, Ltd.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. Statement op the Case. Plaintiffs claim that McEwan & Murray, Limited, and the Gulf Lumber Company, Limited, are indebted to them in the sum of four-thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars.
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A PPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Monroe, J. Statement op the Case. Plaintiffs claim that McEwan & Murray, Limited, and the Gulf Lumber Company, Limited, are indebted to them in the sum of four-thousand seven hundred and thirty-one dollars. That prior to September, 1893, they had properly erected along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain, between the intersection of People’s avenue and the said lake and the Pointe-aux-Herbes, an embankment of earth, and had duly constructed thereon their railroad under and by virtue of legislative and municipal grants and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
In March, 1893, a contract was entered into between McEwen & Murray, Limited, a corporation owning and operating a saw-mill on the New Canal, in the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Lumber Company, by which the latter bound itself to haul and' tow the former’s saw logs from different points on streams emptying into Lake Maurepas, on said lake through Pass Manchac, on Lake Pontchartrain, into the New Canal to the saw-mill of the owners.
For the purpose of towing, the practice has been to bind ten or twelve logs together by chains into what…
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- Atkinson v. Goodrich Transportation Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1884
- McGowan v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.Wisconsin Supreme Court · 1895
- Barton v. Pepin County Agricultural SocietyWisconsin Supreme Court · 1892
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