Batture in front of the Faubourg Ste. Marie, 1807

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Profiles showing the level of the new land depicted is just upriver from the French Quarter. Courtesy of Louisiana Division/City Archives, New Orleans Public Library

This file appears in: Batture Cases

Batture Cases

By Mary Ann Wegmann, The Law Library of Louisiana & University of New Orleans History Department

The Louisiana Supreme Court decided one of the famous “Batture Cases” while located in the Government House. In Morgan v. Livingston, the Louisiana Supreme Court held that the owner of “rural” land…