Mayor of New-Orleans v. Gravier

T corter, J.,. 1.1 •• r*,i delivered the opinion of the court. The petition states that the suburb of St. Mary forms a part of, and is included with-the limits of the city of New-Orleans; that if *621was established in or about the year 1789, by the late Bertrand Gravier, then owner of the plantation on which it has been founded ; who, in the year 1795, enlarged the first plan by the addition of several streets, and a public square, as appears from several plats of survey, drawn by Laveau Trudeau, surveyor general of Louisiana, under the Spanish govern-merit.

East’n District. June, 1822.…