Pittsburgh & Southern Coal Co. v. Otis Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana; Rufus E. Foster, Judge. Action by the Pittsburgh & Southern Coal Company against the Otis Manufacturing Company. There was a judgment for defend=ant, dismissing the petition, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge.
This writ of error presents for review a judgment sustaining an exception of no cause of action to the petition of the plaintiff in error (which will be called the plaintiff) and dismissing the same. The petition as amended showed the following state of facts:
The plaintiff now is, and for many years has been, the owner of described land in the city of New Orleans which fronts on the Mississippi river, together with the batture and batture rights appertaining thereto, a portion of which land it leased for several years to the defendant in error (which will be called the…
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