Howell v. Metropolitan Land Co.

This is a petitory action. Plaintiff relies solely on prescription. The land in controversy is that referred to as “the second concession” in the following description, which is admitted to be word for word the same in all the several deeds constituting plaintiff’s chain of titles, to wit;

“A certain portion of land, together with all the buildings, customs, ways, servitudes, or appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining, situated in this parish, about three miles below this city of New Orleans, on the same side of the Mississippi river, measuring one and a half arpents…