Berry v. Eames

MOUTON, Judge.

This suit was brought by plaintiff for a partition by licitation of a 10-acre tract of land situated 6 or 7 miles from the city of Baton Rouge.

The defense being that the partition could be made in kind, the court appointed L. A. Huey, civil engineer, to examine the property, and to make a report of his findings.

The tract of land is in the shape of a parallelogram haying a frontage on a public highway of 53 feet by a depth of 1350 feet.

The civil engineer, Mr. Huey, filed a sketch of the land dividing it into six lots with a frontage for each lot of 53 feet on the highway by 1350…