Legal Opinion

Torres v. Falgoust

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided May 15, 1885No. 9063PublishedCited by 24 opinions

APPEAL from the Twenty-second District Court, Parish of St-James. Cheevers, J.

1Opinion of the Court

*498The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

The plaintiffs allege, in substance, that a certain road commonly called “Manche,” running- through their lands and those of ■defendants, is a public road, and that it had been opened and dedicated to public use for forty or fifty years. They further charge that, at a point where it traverses the defendant’s land the road had been rendered impassible by a hole ; that defendant refused to fill up this hole or to permit others to do so, and threatened to build a fence across the road if any attempt was made to fill it.

They asked and obtained an…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. President of Cincinnati v. Lessee of WhiteSupreme Court of the United States · 1832

3Cited by24 opinions

  1. Cenac v. Public Access Water Rights Ass'nSupreme Court of Louisiana · 2003
  2. United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. New Orleans Term. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1963
  3. Bomar v. City of Baton RougeSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1926
  4. Ogborn v. Lower Terrebonne Refining & Mfg. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
  5. B. F. Trappey's Sons, Inc. v. City of New IberiaSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1954

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