Powers v. Foucher

This action was commenced to obtain and secure the enjoyment of a servitude, which the petitioner avers he is entitled to, on a canal cut through land of the defendants. The title and incidents, connected with it, are minutely detailed in the petition. In the year 1750, one Claude Dubreuil, sen. was owner of a tract of land on the other side of the river, situated about three miles from the city. Desirous of procuring an easy communication with lands which he owned in the rear of this tract, he appropriated an arpent front for that purpose, and cut a canal through it, which he connected with…