Richard v. City of New Orleans

ROGERS, Justice.

This is an action for slander of title. The property in dispute is a strip of land situated in the Third District of the City of New Orleans, measuring 140 feet (French measure) in width and extending between parallel lines a distance of approximately 2,000 feet. The strip of land was formerly used by the Pontchartrain Railroad Company as a right of way, extending from Florida Avenue along Elysian Fields Avenue, in the' direction of Lake Pontchartrain, to the Howe-Martin line, as is more fully described in the pleadings.

The original plaintiffs, fifty-one in number, are the…