Salles v. Jacquet

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Monroe J.

This is an action of boundary in which the plaintiffs claim to be the owners of a tract of land in the parish of St. Martin which they allege measures eight arpents front on bayou Teché and is *108worth “over three thousand dollars,” whilst the adjoining tract, the boundary of which is in dispute, measuring one arpent front on the bayou, is said to be worth $500. From the evidence adduced, it appears that the strip of land in contest has but a fraction of an arpent front, and, from both the evidence and the pleadings, it appears that the value of…