First Municipality of New Orleans v. Commissioners of the General Sinking Fund
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Action before the Parish Court of New Orleans, by the First Municipality, against the Commissioners of the General Sinking Fund, and the Second and Third Municipalities of the city of New Orleans.
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Action before the Parish Court of New Orleans, by the First Municipality, against the Commissioners of the General Sinking Fund, and the Second and Third Municipalities of the city of New Orleans. The petition prays that the proceeds of the sale of certain lots, situated between Ursuline, Levée, and Garrison or Barrack streets, and the public road, and between Custom House,-Levée, and Bienville streets, and the public road, originally forming a part of the public quays, extending along the front of the city between the first row of houses and the river Mississippi, which by an act of the…
1Opinion of the CourtGarland, J.
The plaintiffs allege that at the foundation of the city of New Orleans, by the King of France, certain spaces of ground were left vacant in front of said city, from its .upper to its lower limits, for the use of the inhabitants, under the name of quays, which as such, had always been used and possessed as a common property *286previous to the cession of Louisiana to the United States, and since. That in the year 1825, the inhabitants, under the administration of a corporation known hy the . name of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Inhabitants of the city of New Orleans, were in possession of the said…
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- Municipality No. One v. BrothersSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1840
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