Hill v. Wm. P. Ross, Inc.

In 1908 Elias Paillet sold to the Southern Land Company a tract of land measuring about 500 feet along Poplar street to the south, and running north about one mile between the property of Tulane University on the east and the lower line of Carroll-ton to the west; at which point it measured about 300 in width along the line of the Marley property.

The Southern Land Company subdivided this tract by running down the center thereof a boulevard which it called Audubon Park Place and dividing the rest of the tract into eight “blocks,” four on each side of said boulevard. Block H is on the west of…