City of New Orleans v. Le Bourgeois
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twenty-first Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. John the Baptist. Rost, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Miller, J.
The city appeals from the judgment dismissing its suit to annul the judgment obtained by defendants in the suit entitled Dufossat et als. vs. Fontenot et als., and in favor of defendants on their reconventional demand.
In 1841 John McDonogh and another sued for slander of title to property of which they averred ownership. In the changes of title in the lapse of years since the suit was brought, in 1895, the ownership appears to have become vested in the city of New Orleans succeeding to the one-third interest of the original plaintiff,…
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