Parish v. Municipality No. 2

Rost, J. *

The plaintiffs represent that they are the owners of lots fronting on New Levee Street, in that part of the city formerly called Faubourg St Mary, and that they derived their titles from persons who, with the city of New Orleans, are made defendants in this suit

That the title to those lots, and to the batture in front of them, was many years in litigation between their vendors and the City, until, to settle forever the rights of the conflicting claimants, on the 20th of September, 1820, they entered into a compromise, in which the following stipulations are found:

“Which said…