Orleans Navigation Co. v. Municipality No. 2
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the parish court for the parish and city of New Orleans. This suit commenced by injunction. The plaintiffs allege they have power and authority conferred on them by the laws of the late Orleans Territory, and an act of Congress passed the 3d March, 1807, to dig and make a canal from Lake Pontchartrain to the MississippiKiver.
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Appeal from the parish court for the parish and city of New Orleans. This suit commenced by injunction. The plaintiffs allege they have power and authority conferred on them by the laws of the late Orleans Territory, and an act of Congress passed the 3d March, 1807, to dig and make a canal from Lake Pontchartrain to the MississippiKiver. Thatin 1837, they resolved to continue the construction of this canal, from the basin at Canal Carondelet, extending through Basin and Oanal streets to the river, and actually commenced digging and excavating said canal in the middle of Oanal-street, near the…
1Opinion of the Court
Marti», J.
delivered the opinion of the court.
[271] The plaintiffs in this suit allege that they are owners of a strip of land in the middle of Oanai-street in the city of New Orleans, convoyed to them by the mayor, aldermen, and inhabitants of said city, in pursuance of an act of Congress, for the purpose of digging a canal, connecting the navigation of Lake Pontchartrain with that of the river Mississippi. That they lately began to dig and excavate the canal, and after having progressed therein they were obstructed and prevented by some of the inhabitants; and after-wards the defendants…
2Cited by1 opinion
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