Heirs of Duverge v. Salter

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

The plaintiffs are the owners of a piece of land on the bank of the river opposite New Orleans, having some two hundred and forty feet ou the public road, and extending in depth to the Mississippi. This land, with a lot adjoining it, which the plaintiffs had leased to one Rouse, has been used as a ship-yard for nearly thirty years, and for the most of that time has been occupied for that purpose by one or other of the defendants. It was originally leased to Bailey and Marcy, and subsequently to their successors, the present defendants,…