Long v. Chailan

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The plaintiffs claim an interest in a tract of land, having an area of 1,070 acres, in the parish of Rapides. They are not in possession of the land, and aver that none of the defendants — and , no one else — has possession of any part of it. Hence the suit is said to he of the character which Act No. 38 of 1908 declares “shall be known as the action to establish title to real estate.”

The defendants, Thomas O. Wells, Homer V. Smith, Woodward Wight & Co., the Union Central Life Insurance Company, and the Texas Company, filed pleas of (1) nonjoinder, or want of…