Ranson v. Long

The District Judge decided this case (a petitory action) in favor of the plaintiffs, on proof of possession of more than thirty years. But the evidence does not appear to us sufficient to establish the long prescription, as the. first written evidence of ownership which plaintiffs offer, bears date in 1827. The proof also on the subject of possession, is not very conclusive, but taking into consideration the fact that the land in controversy was a vacherie, in a part of the parish of St. Charles difficult of access, until traversed by the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad, and…