Legal Opinion

Ellis v. Prevost

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided July 15, 1841PublishedCited by 50 opinions

Eastern Dis. APPEAL Eliora: THE COURT OP THE SECOND DISTRICT, EOR T1IE PARISH OP TERREBONNE, THE JUDGE OP THE EOURTH DISTRICT PRESIDING. This is a possessory action, to recover the possession of a tract of land on bayou Grand Caillou, in the parish of Terre-bonne. The facts of the case are fully stated in a former report and judgment of this court. See 13 La. Reports, 230. The cause was remanded for a new trial, and again submitted to a jury on the same evidence.

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Eastern Dis. APPEAL Eliora: THE COURT OP THE SECOND DISTRICT, EOR T1IE PARISH OP TERREBONNE, THE JUDGE OP THE EOURTH DISTRICT PRESIDING. This is a possessory action, to recover the possession of a tract of land on bayou Grand Caillou, in the parish of Terre-bonne. The facts of the case are fully stated in a former report and judgment of this court. See 13 La. Reports, 230. The cause was remanded for a new trial, and again submitted to a jury on the same evidence. There was a verdict and judgment for the defendants, and the plaintiff appealed.

1Opinion of the CourtSimon, J.

This case was once before this court, and was remanded for a new trial. The judgment then appealed from had been rendered in favor of ffhe defendants, and on the second trial before the court below, the jury having again found a verdict for the said defendants, the plaintiff, without attempting to obtain a new trial, brought up the present appeal.

The facts of this case, so far as it was then necessary to review them, are perhaps sufficiently slated in the report there*252of, 13 La. Rep., 230; but as no additional evidence was pro-¿uce¿ by either of the parties on the second trial in the lower…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Ellis v. PrevostSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1839

3Cited by50 opinions

  1. Hill v. RicheySupreme Court of Louisiana · 1952
  2. Liner v. Louisiana Land and Exploration Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1975
  3. Snelling v. AdairSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1940
  4. Loeblich v. GarnierLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1959
  5. Rhodes v. CollierSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1949

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