Case Name: Orleans and Jefferson Railway Company, Limited, vs. International Construction Company et als.
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1902
Citations: 108 La. 82
Docket Number: No. 13,809
Parties: Orleans and Jefferson Railway Company, Limited, vs. International Construction Company et als.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 108
Pages: 82–83

Head Matter:
No. 13,809.
Orleans and Jefferson Railway Company, Limited, vs. International Construction Company et als.
Syllabus.
The mere fact that a contractor who has undertaken to build and equip a street railroad has assembled certain material with the intention of using it for the purposes of the contract, gives the contractee no proprietary interest in such material, nor does it give him the right to control the disposition of it Hence, an injunction will not lie at the suit of the contractee to prohibit tbs contractor from removing such material, or otherwise disposing of it.
APPEAL from the civil district court, parish of Orleans — Thécvrd, J.
Carroll & Carroll and Dirikelspiel & Hart, for Orleans and J efferson Railway Company, Limited, and W. N. Grünewald, plaintiffs, appellants.
George W. Flynn, for Costello & Burke, defendants, appellees.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Monroe, J.
This case was argued with the case of Mrs. Flora B. Cameron et als. vs. Orleans and Jefferson Railway Company, Limited, this day decided, and is so intimately connected with that case that it has been found convenient to deal with both in one opinion.
For the reasons there given, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment appealed from be affirmed in so far as it dissolves the injunction and rejects the plaintiff's demand, and that it be annulled, avoided and reversed in so far as it sustains the reconventional demand of E. M. Costello and M. D. Burke and Costello & Burke and awards them damages, the costs of the main demand to he paid by the plaintiffs and those of the reconventional demand, as also those -of the appeal, by said Costello & Burke and E. M. Costello and M. D. Burke.
Rehearing refused.