Legal description
That certain piece or portion of ground, together with all buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in Parish of St. Bernard, State of Louisiana, on the east bank of the Mississippi River at about four miles below the U.S. Barracks, or about seven miles below Canal Street, City of New Orleans, and being a part of the original upper one-half (1/2) of lot no. eight (8) of Corrine and Myrtle Grove Plantation. According to a print of survey by R.B. Rordam, Surveyor, dated November 2, 1954, as revised on December 8, 1954, a copy of which is annexed to act before Edwin M. Roy, N.P., dated February 14, 1955, recorded in COB 59, folio 258, of the records of the Parish of St. Bernard, and said lot is designated thereon by the letter “C” and commences at a point marked by an iron pipe, which is located 231.93 feet from the intersection of the southern railroad right of way with the upper lines of a fifteen foot (15’) lane, (which lane is on the lower side of the upper one-half (1/2) of lot no. eight (8) and from said iron pipe of commencement along the rear line of Lot “B” a distance of 81.25 feet to an iron pipe, thence in a southwesterly direction along the dividing line between Lot “C” and Lot seven (7), a distance of 305.20 feet to the toe of the slope of the levee; thence in a southeasterly direction along the toe of the slope of the levee to a point marked by an iron pipe; thence go in a northeasterly direction a distance of 253.2 feet to an iron pipe; thence in a northwesterly direction along the line separating the fifteen foot (15’) lane from Lot “C” a distance of fifteen feet (15’) to the point of commencement, including the rights of ways, servitude, drainage’s rights, et cetera, granted by the vendor in the Act of Sale by Chris Marsclona (or Batchelona) Di Arcangelo to Anthony Barcelona dated February 16, 1955, before Edwin M. Roy, N.P. Less and except: all title and ownership to the Mississippi River batture rights and all riparian rights which are being retained by vendor’s herein.