Hurwitz v. Lotz

Plaintiffs and defendant own adjoining lots in the city of New Orleans, fronting on Baronne street.

In erecting a four-story brick building on their corner lot, plaintiffs used defendant’s wall and a four-inch strip beyond the wall.

Thereupon defendant caused an affidavit to be recorded in the office of the recorder of mortgages for the parish of Orleans in which he claimed “that the wall is worth $9,850, and Lotz’s 4 inches of land on the Hurwitz side of the wall, plus the 9 inches on which one-half of the wall rests, is worth $2,166.66; and that he, Lotz, therefore has a lien on the relators’…