Sessions v. Tensas River Planting Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Tenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Concordia; N. M. Calhoun, Judge. Action by Anna M. Sessions and others against the Tensas River Planting Company and others. Prom a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
The property in dispute in this case is a tract of 797 acres of wooded swamp land. Plaintiff traces title to the patentee. Defendant claims title by the prescription of 10 years. According to the registered titles the land is bounded on the east and south by the Beilina plantation. Defendant claims that by deeds translative of property it formed part of Beilina plantation for more than 10 years before the filing of this suit. This plantation was originally owned by Frederick Stanton. At his death it passed to his heirs, and all the sales that have since been made, except the recent ones to…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- John T. Moore Planting Co. v. Morgan's Louisiana & T. R. & S. S. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1908
- McNeeley v. South Penn Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1903
- Turner v. MooreTexas Supreme Court · 1891
- St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. MooreSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1907
- Arnold v. Chas. T. Abeles & Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1911
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