Drouet v. Rice

This suit is brought to recover six lots and a half in the Second Municipality of New Orleans, occupying the whole front of a square on St. Peter street, with a depth of one hundred and twenty feet on Perdido and Poydras streets. The petitioners allege that JosephDrouet, whose children and heirs they are, purchased this property of Jean Gravier, on the 14th of April, 1807, and remained in possession of it until his death, which happened on the 20th of October, 1811; that the'defendants are in possession of the six lots and a half; that they claim them as their own property, and refuse to…