Martin v. City of Lafayette

The defendant, being about to pave certain sidewalks within its corporate limits, found plaintiffs encroaching some two feet or more on Douglas street (so it claimed), which encroachment had lasted more than one year. And the defendant being about to remove said encroachment and lay the sidewalks on said Douglas street according to the lines established by its engineer, plaintiffs' thereon filed a possessory ac tion and coupled therewith an application for an-injunction to restrain defendant from interfering with their possession pendente lite.

The trial judge issued a temporary restraining…