Gardere v. Blanton

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

The plaintiffs, alleged co-proprietors of a tract of swamp land in Jefferson Parish, sue the defendants to recover forty-five hundred dollars as damages for trespass in cutting down trees thereon for cross-ties.

Blanton derived his authority to cut the timber from one Faivre, ’ with whom he had a written contract permitting him to cut several thousand ties for four cents a tie. Faivre claimed to be the owner of the land. The ties were sequestered, and writs of injunction issued prohibiting the demolition of the timber in future.

In March,…