Municipality No. 1 v. Municipality No. 2
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This suit commenced by injunction granted on the petition of Municipality No. 1, of the dty of New-Orleans, to restrain and inhibit Municipality No. 2, from making certain wharves and cpnstructing works on the batture in front of the faubourg St. Mary, and extending from Common-street below to Delor-street above, embracing the whole front and public space between New Levee-street and the river…
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE PARISH COURT FOR THE PARISH AND CITY OF NEW-ORLEANS. This suit commenced by injunction granted on the petition of Municipality No. 1, of the dty of New-Orleans, to restrain and inhibit Municipality No. 2, from making certain wharves and cpnstructing works on the batture in front of the faubourg St. Mary, and extending from Common-street below to Delor-street above, embracing the whole front and public space between New Levee-street and the river Mississippi. The plaintiffs further claimed the right and unrestricted "privilege to dig and take such quantities of…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
This suit commenced by injunction issued against the 2d Municipality of the city of New-Orleans, on the petition of the first Municipality, inhibiting the former “from proceeding any further in erecting wharves or other works, on the batture in front of the faubourg St. Mary, until the further order of the Parish Court.” The grounds alleged for this proceeding were, that the works then in progress had a tendency to obstruct a place, of which the public has the use; to prevent the navigation of the river, or to render it more difficult, and to fill up the port in front of Municipality No. 1,…
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