Case Name: Wm. Florance v. L. P. Maillot and James Wood
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1870-03
Citations: 22 La. Ann. 114
Docket Number: No. 1942
Parties: Wm. Florance v. L. P. Maillot and James Wood.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 114–114

Head Matter:
No. 1942.
Wm. Florance v. L. P. Maillot and James Wood.
A party erecting a wall on the lino of his premises, which is afterwards used as a wall in common by the adjoining proprietor, can only recover from the party using it as a wall in common, one-half of the original cost of building it. C. C. 672; 20 An. 553.
APPEAL from the Sixth District Court, parish, of Orleans. Cooley, J.
I). G. Ldbatt, for plaintiff and appellant. 0. Boselkis, for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
Howe, J.
The plaintiff brought this suit to recover the value of one-half of that portion of a party wall which had been made use of by his neighbor, the defendant, Wood.
It appears by the admissions in the record, that the half of the wall so used cost to build, in 1851, the sum of $326 84, and that it would have cost to build the same in 1866, when Wood first used it, the sum of $596. This latter and larger sum the plaintiff alleged to be the value of the wall, and claimed to recover. He had judgment only for $326 84, a sum equal to the cost, and he has appealed.
Wo had occasion to decide in Audi v. Laboisse, 20 An. 553, that in a case like the one at bar, the amount to be recovered by the plaintiff must be measured by the rules laid down in article 672 of the Civil Code. The amount of the judgment is therefore correct.
It is ordered that the judgment appealed from be affirmed, at the cost of the appellant.
Rehearing refused.