NEW ORLEANS TERMINAL COMPANY v. SPENCER

Civ. A. No. 9125-B.

255 F.Supp. 1 (1965)

NEW ORLEANS TERMINAL COMPANY, Plaintiff, and Texas & New Orleans Railroad Company, Intervenor, v. Charles W. SPENCER, Beauregard H. Miller, Jr., A. Russell Roberts, Robert J. Duplantis, Frederick J. R. Heebe, John G. Fitzgerald, William J. Dwyer, Vernon C. Haynes, William S. Coci, Philip B. Smith and Frank H. Langridge, Defendants.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

October 28, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter J. Suthon, Jr., Malcolm L. Monroe, Benjamin R. Slater, Jr., J. Raburn Monroe, Monroe & Lemann, New Orleans, La., and Arnold McKennon, Gen. Sol. for Southern Railway System, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff, New Orleans Terminal Co.

Harry McCall, Jr., William E. Crawford, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke, Toler & Hopkins, New Orleans, La., for intervenor, Texas & New Orleans R. Co.

Nathan Greenberg, Gilbert P. Cohen, Greenberg & Cohen, Gretna, La., special counsel for defendant members of Jefferson Parish Council.

Frank H. Langridge, Jefferson Parish Dist. Atty., in pro. per.

Samuel S. Dalton, New Orleans, La., for defendant William S. Coci.

Waverly A. Henning, Asst. Dist. Atty., Jefferson Parish, La., Harold Kytle, Louis G. DeSonier, Jefferson Parish Atty., George C. Stringer, Jr., and F. M. Lob, Asst. Parish Attys., Jefferson Parish, La., for defendants.


FRANK B. ELLIS, District Judge.

Over a period of years the citizens and Council of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, have been seeking removal of several New Orleans Terminal Company railroad grade crossings in highly populated areas of Metairie, Louisiana. Having failed in repeated attempts to amicably eliminate the crossings, or at least alleviate the noise, inconvenience and hazards incidental to operations conducted on the...

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