Newspaper Article

ID: 3087

This file appears in: Batture Cases

The Democratic Press. [Philadelphia] December 18, 1810, 2.

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…