James v. Delery

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order granting a- preliminary injunction, forbidding the defendant to padlock a gate across a common road in- the Hope-Plantation Subdivision in the Parish of St. John the Baptist.

The plaintiff and the defendant own adjoining small farms in the subdivision, near the village of Garyville. The plaintiff’s land lies to the west and north of the defendant’s land. The direct route from the plaintiff’s land to the public road leading to Garyville lies across defendant’s land.

The lands owned by the plaintiff and the defendant, respectively, belonged…