Heirs of Deslondes v. City of New Orleans

This suit is brought to recover of the defendant, “ all the batture now in its possession and unsold, lying in front of faubourg St. Mary, and between New Leveee street and the river, and between Common street and the line dividing the batture in front of faubourg Delord, from the batture in front of faubourg St. Mary, and all the batture lying in front of Delta and Front streets, to the water’s edge.”

*553Counsel inform us, that the questions which they present to our consideration under the plaintiffs’ title, involve property to the amount of several millions of dollars. In the examination of…