Legal Opinion
City of Baltimore v. Lutcher
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 11, 1914No. 20100PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from Twenty-Seventh District Court,- Parish of St. James; Charles T. Wortham, Judge. Action by the City of Baltimore and another against Henry J. Lutcher and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProyosty, J.
In 1769 the French government made a grant to one Pierre Delille Dupart of a tract of land described as follows :
“Thirty arpents of front to the. river upon the whole depth which shall be found unto Lake Maurepas, of the land where heretofore were two villages of the Colapissas savages.”
John McDonogh acquired all that part of this grant back of a line 80 arpents-from the river, and in his will bequeathed same, together with numerous other tracts of land and a large amount of other property, to the cities of Baltimore and New Orleans for school purposes. In 1857, the two cities made a…
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