Avery v. Allain

The plaintiff claims to be the owner and possessor of a tract of land of twelve arpents front on the Mississippi river, by a depth of eighty arpents, with lines opening to the rear ten degrees. The defendants aver that they are the owners and possessors of a tract of twenty arpents front on the bayou Manchac, with a depth of forty arpents. The distance between the two rivers not being one hundred and twenty ar-pents, the claims conflict with each other in the rear, and about seventy-seven and 11-100 acres are in dispute. Both parties claim them by virtue of their titles, and also by…