Pecoul v. Auge

This is a contest between Ferdinand Pécoul, the plaintiff in injunction, who is the owner of a building in New Orleans, and Jean Augé, the defendant, his lessee, as to the ownership of certain improvements and additions, claimed by Augé to have been made by him on the property leased, at the time he was the lessee of David Urquhart, who sold the building to Pécoul, from whom it was subsequently leased by Augé.

*615Without seeking to impugn the right that Augé might have had to remove these improvements, had he continued to be the lessee of Urquhart, Pécoul contests the exercising of that right…