Small v. Bonnabel

The plaintiff has cumulated several demands in this action. He alleges that the defendant has, within the year, illegally taken possession of *293part of his land fronting on the bayou Metairie; that on the portion thus taken, which forms a part of the public road, the defendant has cut a canal and erected a fence, whereby he is deprived of the use of said road and bayou, greatly to his damage; that he and the other proprietors of the Metairie are interested, for the benefit of their property, to have the use of the whole width of said road; that said bayou is public for all persons, and its free…