Barrow v. Bank of Louisiana

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Slidem,, J.

In the year 1836, the Bank of Louisiana took .a mortgage from one Overlay, upon a tract of land described as follows: “ A certain tract of land and plantation, situated in the parish aforesaid, in Barker’s settlement, on Dry bayou, containing 640 arpents, with the improvements thereon and thereto belonging; bounded on the north by vacant lands, on the north-east and east by lands belonging to William Barker’s estate, vacant lands, and the estate of Joseph Young; on the south-east and south, by vacant lands and Dry bayou ; and on the…