Graihle v. Hown

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustií, C. J.*

The plaintiff being owner of a lot in this eity, and erecting on it a house, in the year 1838, built nine inches of his lateral wall on the adjoining lot.

It is conceded that he was authorized to malte this encroachment on the land of his neighbor under-the 671st article of the Civil Code, the copditions of which the plaintiff, in the construction of the wall, has complied with.

The defendant being the owner of the lot adjoining that of the plaintiff, sometime in July, 1844, built a house on it, and used the wall in its construction for…