Federal Land Bank v. John D. Nix, Jr., Enterprises, Inc.

For the purpose of erecting a building to conduct its business, plaintiff purchased a lot, together with the improvements thereon, on which was located a tenement house, or half of a double tenement house, built some 50 years ago. The property in question is located on St. Charles street, in the city of New Orleans. To construct the building, plaintiff demolished the tenement house purchased by it, but left intact a party wall that separated the house it purchased from an adjoining tenement house; the two tenement houses having been so constructed, in relation to each other, as to constitute,…