Hunter v. Forrest

FOURNET, Justice.

Plaintiffs instituted a petitory action to recover from the defendant possession of a certain tract of land described as follows:

“Also another tract being in the Western portion of what is known as the Crane Tract, beginning on the west of said tract at a point where the lands of J. D. Gourney and F. H. Neal join said tract and run northwest on the line between the Neal and Crane tract the distance of fourteen chains; thence East to the center of the Lake; thence down the drain of said lake to the aforementioned Canal; thence up said Canal and around the margin of the Lake to…