State v. Carondelet Canal & Navigation Co.

*281Statement of the Case.

MONROE, .J.

The state alleges that it owns and is entitled to the possession of the Carondelet Canal and Bayou St. John and the Old Basin, situated in the parish of Orleans, together with all the property and improvements connected therewith or in any wise thereto belonging or appertaining.

“That defendant has been in possession of said property for many years, under certain legislative grants, agreeably to which its right to such possession has long since terminated, and that a board of control has been created, which is ready to take possession in its (the state’s)…