Pierce v. City of New Orleans

A rule was taken by the plaintiff on the City of New Orleans, requiring it to show cause why it should not be enjoined and ordered to close up certain openings made by it in a wall held in common, adjacent to and in the rear of the plaintiff’s dwelling-house and yard.

To this rule the defendant filed an exception, on the ground that the proceeding resorted to by the plaintiff is not one of those cases in which a summary remedy is expressly provided for by law.

The rule was made absolute, and the defendant was ordered to close up the openings in the wall referred to in the petition, and to…