Morgan v. Lombard

The plaintiff, alleging that the passage or alley running from the Bayou road to Columbus street is a public thing, in-joined the Sefendant from fencing it or obstructing the use of it by the-public. The defendant claims that the property belongs to him. There was judgment in favor of the plaintiff against the defendant, decreeing the alley to be a locus pubKcus and for $500 damages. The defendant has appealed.

There is no evidence in this record of an intention on the part of the owners of said land to dedicate* it to public use. The mere fact that for thirty or forty years the public was…