Emery v. Orleans Levee Board

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a petitory action. The property sued for is a tract of land having an area of 34.68 acres fronting on the east bank of the Mississippi River, in the parish of Plaquemines, about 65 miles -below New Orleans.

Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs on the face of the pleadings, under authority of the Pleading and Practice Act, being Act No. 157 of 1912, as amended by Act No. 300 of 1914, and by Act No. 228 of 1924, and by Act No. 27 of 1926. The defendant is appealing from the judgment.

The plaintiffs in their original petition traced their title to a sale…