HAYDEL v. DUFRESNE


58 U.S. 23 (1854)

17 How. 23

MARCELIN HAYDEL, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. FRANCOIS DUFRESNE.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Janin, for the plaintiff in error, and submitted upon a printed argument by Mr. Grailhe, for the defendant in error.


Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff and defendant are respectively owners of tracts of land forty arpens deep, situate in a concave bend of the Mississippi River, in Louisiana; their tracts front on different sides of the deepest point of land, and when the side lines of each tract are extended perpendicular to a base line corresponding with the bank of the river, the two tracts interfere before...

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