The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-05-09
PROSPECTIVE LITIGATION.
Thc Claim Of the CarrOIltOn Railroad
Company to the streets ana Front Of

The Claim, Of the CarrOIltOn RaiIroad
| Company to the streets anh Front OF
| pOydras Market.
| The recent question about the title and right
| or occupancy Of the small plot Of ground In front
Of Poydras Market has excited considerable at
| tention and as the heavy litigation will, at an
early day, grow out of II, the public naturally FEEL
an interest in the subject. Yesterday a DEMO
cRAr reporter, for the purpose of learning fully
THE CLAIM MApE
by the Carrollton Railroad Company visited it's
energetic President. Watson Van Benthuyseu,
Eco aud from him learned the following facts.
In the } ear 1883 the CarroIlton Railroad Com :
pany purchased from that old corporation, the
Orleans Navigation Company, whose title came
from Gravier. the basin and canal where now
stands the Poydras Market and many OF the ad
joining buildings. The canal extended down to
the line OF the bayou st. John, and the sale in
cluisd fifty feet zach side Of ii. The who,e
property
WAS THEN LAID OFF
and the basin itself was divided by running Ba-
rome etrest through the centre of it. At this
tmo the plot in front of the present market was
the car-house and statd Of tho Csrrollton Rail
IuNu SOHpaHy, anu WAS bO useu IOT many years.
Shortly after this the Carrollton Railroad Com
pany laid off the canal into plots, commencing on
a northern line with Penn street which runs in
at ght angles with the front OF The market, each
of theee plots being the full depth from street to
street, and % feet in width. Those plots be-
tween Pom and Philippe, and Circus or Rampant
Streets were sold to the city in 1885, on the con-
dition that the corporation would erect
THE NOW royDBAs MARKET
bull iings and solely and wholly on that oondi-
ton. The email plot, about forty feet square,
about whish the hucksters and Administrators
are divided, now constituting the continuation Of
Penn street into South Poydras, was donated by
the railroad company to the city. The munich
pality afterwards desiring to widen the market
houses. was allowed to take ten feet from the
North Poydras street side. Since then the city,
without the consent Of the railroad company, has
taken possession OF and used another ten feet on
Che same side and twenty feet on the South Poy-
dras side for
EXTENSION or THE MARKET
house. This plot OF ground, bounded by Bs-
rome, South Poydras. Penn and the buildings on
the lower eide specially reserved by the rail-
road company. 1t being agreed by the company
that IL would nse erect building upon it,
BY the charter, the Carrollton Railroad Com
pany was specially exempted from all taxation at
fret for eve years, and afterwards FOR thirty
This corporation. the president states, has never
alena,ed, donated or parted with it's control over
this properly 10 any manner what's ever, and it
is pr posed TO rent or sell 1t, Is may be best
deemed fl and to
THEIR nFgT rNTRRHsTS
The company aims the title to more than the
smsl plot IT 1rouud in front OF the III arket it ap-
pears ALI Ut the side streets, north an South
Poydras roadway and sidewalks and hose por-
tions Of Basoune street 10, merry D mprised with.
Ia the limits OF The basin, will be claimed at law.
All OF this pr, , rty the company has never ex
propriatsd or alienated, and the city has in
notsrial act 81 knowledg d the cumpauy's owner
strip OF these very streets.
The prospects for q heavy litigation are very