Mayor v. Magnon

The petition states, that the defendant, in 1781, erected a shed, between the levee and the river, in the city of New-Orleans, in order to carry on some carpenter’s work for the Spanish government, and established near it a deposit of timber. In the month of January of the following year, the cabildo ordered the shed, timber, &c. be*3tween the levee and the river, to be removed; but on the solicitation of the defendant, he was afterwards allowed to use his shed and the neighboring ground as a deposit of timber, on condition that he should cause no inconvenience to the public; whereupon, he…