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TEXAS & NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD CO. v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 18643.

292 F.2d 607 (1961)

TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANS RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS by and through the PUBLIC BELT RAILROAD COMMISSION FOR the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

July 31, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry McCall, Jr., Chaffe, McCall, Philips, Burke & Hopkins, New Orleans, La., for Texas & New Orleans R. Co.

A. J. Waechter, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, La., for appellee.

John St. Paul, Jr., Jack M. Gordon, New Orleans, La., Sumter D. Marks, Jr., Ashton Phelps, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Dufour, St. Paul, Levy & Marx, New Orleans, La., of counsel, for Texas Pacific-Missouri Pacific R. of New Orleans, intervenor-appellee.

Before JONES and BROWN, Circuit Judges, and CARSWELL, District Judge.

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

This appeal tests the correctness of the judgment of the District Court declaring certain rights of the parties to a series of contracts concerning the financing and use of the Huey P. Long Bridge over the Mississippi River. What we write must be read against the immediate backdrop of the trial court's exhaustive and able opinion. Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company v. City of New Orleans, E.D.La.1960, 185 F.Supp...

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