Farris Lumber & Supply Co. v. Gardette

JANVIER, Judge. ;

' Plaintiff corporation is a retail lumber dealer doing business in New Orleans. Before the occurrences on which this suit is based, defendant, Emile E.' Gardette, owned three lots of ground numbered 1, 2 and 3, in the square bounded by Lane Avenue, Grant Street, Gentilly Highway, and a fourth unnamed street, in the Ninth Ward of the City of New Orleans.

Gardette sold lots 2 and 3 to Nicholas P. Wagner, a contractor who erected buildings on those two lots,' but Gardette retained the ownership,of lot No. 1.

In its original petition plaintiff corporation alleged that a1 building…