Crowell Spencer Lumber Co. v. Lynch

This is a petitory action in which plaintiff seeks to recover the ownership of certain lands situated in the parish of Vernon. The defendant does not dispute the title of plaintiff, but he demands that plaintiff be condemned to pay him before being dispossessed; ’one thousand dollars for the value of improvements which he has placed upon land. Plaintiff does not wish or elect to retain these improvements. The case is then resolved into the single' issue whether defendant was a possessor in good faith.

Defendant claims that before erecting any building upon the land he had an interview with…