Gillard v. Glenn
Supreme Court of Louisiana
This action was instituted by the heirs of Joseph Gillard, and the heirs of Mary Magdelaine La Cour, and Nicholas La Cour, against Samuel Glenn, Sarah Duncan, and James McWilliams, before the District Court of Rapides, the 19th of October, 1839. A judgment was entered, by consent, against McWilliams; and the jury having found for the defendants, Glenn and Duncan, judgment was rendered by Wilson, J., quieting them in their possession.
1Opinion of the Court
Garland, J.*
The plaintiffs allege, that for more than a year they had, in common, enjoyed, and held peaceable and uninterrupted possession of a tract of land of twenty arpens front, by the ordinary depth, on. Red River, and also the upper part of a league *160square of land on the same stream, when the defendants entered upon the same, and forcibly and clandestinely took possession of small parcels thereof, within a year, and continue to hold possession, thereby disturbing them in the use and enjoyment of their property, to their great damage. They therefore pray that the defendants be condemned…
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