Barre v. City of New Orleans

The xilaintiff, as agent of several claimants, representing themselves to ho the heirs at law of their grandmother, Marie St. Jean, a free weman of color, institutes this suit to recover a portion of the battnre or alluvion deposit formed by the Mississippi river in front of the city of New Orleans, alleging that their ancestor was tho owner of a lot of ground measuring two hundred and forty feet front on the river, according to a plan made by C. L. Trudeau, surveyor, on the first of April, 1788; that the said lot, numbered thirty-four on Trudeau’s plat of survey, and marked on that plat, in…