Destrehan v. Fazende

On the 11th day of October, 1831, Nicholas N. Pestrehan sold to the defendant, by reference to a plan, square No. 11 in Mechanics’ village, on the right bank of the Mississippi, in the parish of Jefierson, for the sum of $600. A notarial act was passed authenticating the sale.

The purchaser desiring to be put in possession, and having called upon the vendor for this purpose, the latter, with his surveyor, made a survey of the supposed square, set the stakes, marking the corners of the same, and put the defendant in possession. The latter enclosed the property thus delivered to him by fence,…