Southern Wood Manufacturing & Creosoting Co. v. Davenport

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Blanchard, J.

The plaintiff acquired by purchase from Mrs. Susan A. Sampson five lots of ground in the city of New Orleans, in the square bounded by Front, Lyon and Bordeaux streets and the Mississippi river.

The lots were designated in the act of sale as Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.; on a plat or plan made in the year 1848 by C. A. Hedin, surveyor..

They adjoined each other and all fronted on Front street on the. north, and on the Mississippi river on the south.

The three first lots are described as having a width of thirty feet by a depth of one hundred and…