Lawsuit between Maspero's and the Old Absinthe House
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1951 newspaper article announces the dismissal of the lawsuit between Maspero's and the Old Absinthe House regarding the location of a meeting between General Andrew Jackson and Jean Lafitte. The Judge ruled, "Legend means nothing more than hearsay or a story handed down from the past."
Courtesy of the Times-Picayune
This file appears in: Old Absinthe House and the Battle of New Orleans
Old Absinthe House and the Battle of New Orleans
The Old Absinthe House, a stucco building at the corner of Bourbon and Bienville Streets, is one of the oldest structures in New Orleans, dating to approximately 1806.
In the nineteenth century,…