Griffon v. Blanc

This is an action of jactitation. The plaintiffs allege that they are the joint owners and possessors of a tract of land in the immediate *6vicinity of the city of New Orleans, having two árpente front on the south side of Canal Oarondelot, being bounded on side nearest the city by lands lately belonging to General Lafayette, and now to John Hagan, and on the opposite side by lands, the title to which is in dispute, and which belong either to the petitioner, John Moore, and to the estate of Theodore Nieolet, or to Madame De Pontalha, and runs between parallel lines to Common street, (then) in…