Wisner v. City of New Orleans

The late Edward Wisner, on August 4,1914, made a donation inter vivos in due form of a number of acres of land to the city of New Orleans, the Board- of Administrators of Tulane University, the Board of Administrators of the Charity Hospital, and to the Commander of the Salvation Army. The land was specifically described in the act of donation, and consisted of 1,840 acres in the parish of Jefferson, 2,412 acres in the parish of St. John the Baptist, and 49,248 acres in the parish of Lafourche. The act of donation was duly inscribed in the records of the three parishes in which the land…