Pontchartrain Railroad v. City of New Orleans

Plaintiffs purchased from Bernard Marigny a strip of land fifty feet wide. The purchase was made on the twenty-third February, 1830. The title of Bernard Marigny to the land in question can not be denied. The land was bounded on either side by a public street.

*163On the fifth March, 1830, the City Council authorized the plaintiffs, during the whole period of the existence of their charter, to cause their road to run in the street, road, or walking avenue, the whole to be established under the direction of the surveyor, and the mayor was authorized to allow "them the use of the street, in so far…