Carrere v. City of New Orleans

This is a petitory action in which plaintiff seeks to be decreed the owner of squares 490 and 491, fronting on Broad street, and bounded by Melpomene avenue, S. White, Erato, and Thalia streets in the city of New Orleans. The defendant, the city of New OrleanSj claims that these squares are located within the 80 arpents line of the Livaudais tract, which it is contended was acquired by John McDonogh on February 10, 1836, by notarial act of sale from Morgan, Peters, Chase, and Pierce, under title tracing back, through Jacques Francois Enoul Livaudais, to an adjudication made in the succession…