ELAM v. CORTINAS

No. 39923.

53 So.2d 146 (1951)

219 La. 406

ELAM v. CORTINAS.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied May 28, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred G. Veith, New Orleans, for appellant.

J. L. Warren Woodville, New Orleans, for appellee.


LE BLANC, Justice.

Plaintiff is the owner, and has been for the past fifteen years of a tract of land fronting on what is now Highway 90, also referred to as the New Chef Menteur Highway. The property extends from Highway 90 to what is known as the Old Gentilly Road, and the rear part of it includes what is now the dry bed of old Bayou Sauvage. Bayou Sauvage years ago ceased to be a navigable stream and its bed has been filled in by the adjoining property owners including...

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