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NEW ORLEANS v. LOUISIANA CONSTRUCTION CO.

No. 435.

140 U.S. 654 (1891)

11 S.Ct. 968

35 L.Ed. 556

NEW ORLEANS, v. LOUISIANA CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 25, 1891.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Carleton Hunt and Mr. Henry C. Miller for plaintiff in error.

Mr. E. Howard McCaleb for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

Upon the admitted facts of this case, it is undisputed, and indisputable, that the spaces of land in question were originally part of the public quay or levee in New Orleans, dedicated to public use, and, in the phrase of the law of Louisiana, locus publicus, and that they never ceased to be such, so as to become private property subject to be taken on execution for debt...

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