B. D. Wood & Sons v. Fabrigas

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nioholls, O. J.

The plaintiffs allege that on October 3, 1890, they leased, under an act duly recorded, from Fortuné Zéringue, and other-s, the landing and river bank of the Mississippi river, known as the Zéringue landing, under Nine Mile Point, in the Parish of Jefferson, with all the rights and privileges belonging and pertaining thereto for the period of five years, beginning on the 15th October, 1890, at the rate of one thousand dollars per year; that in the month of October, 1891, the Citizens Bank of Louisiana, became the owner of said property…