Land v. Smith
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the First District Court, Parish of Oaddo. Taylor, J. 1. The owner of land within the corporate limits o£ a town or city has the legal' right to make it a suburb or subdivision of the town or city, and the right to have it surveyed into lots, blocks, streets and alleys, and to sell the lots separate from the streets at x>rivate or xmblic sale. O. 0., Art. 491 (483). 2. A sale of lots bounded by streets is a dedication of the streets to public use.
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APPEAL from the First District Court, Parish of Oaddo. Taylor, J. 1. The owner of land within the corporate limits o£ a town or city has the legal' right to make it a suburb or subdivision of the town or city, and the right to have it surveyed into lots, blocks, streets and alleys, and to sell the lots separate from the streets at x>rivate or xmblic sale. O. 0., Art. 491 (483). 2. A sale of lots bounded by streets is a dedication of the streets to public use. Dillon on Municipal Corjiorations, Vol. 2, p. 638, Hoc. 640. 3. A plan or map by which property is sold Jornis a part of the title, and…
1Opinion of the Court
*933The opinion of the court was delivered by
McEneey, J.
Plaintiff sues for a partition of property within the ■corporate limits of the city of Shreveport, known as Silver Lake.
The property is owned in indivisión by a number of proprietors in the proportions of one-twenty-fourth, one-twelfth, one-fourth and one-sixteenth. He prays for a partition in kind. His co-owners join in this demand, or make no opposition to it, except A. H. Leonard, who answers demanding a partition by licitation. There was judgment rendered directing the Silver Lake tract to be divided in kind into four parts equal in…
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