Burton Swartz Cypress Co. v. Baker-Wakefield Cypress Co.

This is the fifth time that this litigation has been before this court in one form or another.

The history of the different suits between plaintiff and defendant companies is fully reviewed in the case of Burton-Swartz Cypress Co. v. Baker-Wakefield Cypress Co., 143 La. 686, 79 So. 221.

It appears that in all of the former suits only the question of possession of the N. W. of section 54, township 12 south, range 15 east, and of the cypress timber thereon, or taken therefrom, had been involved.

In the 143 La. ease, plaintiff company, alleging that it had possession of the timber, sued to recover…