Esmele v. Violet Trapping Co.

LAND, Justice.

Plaintiff leased certain lands in the parish of St. Bernard, owned by the Godchaux Sugars, Inc., and was in peaceful and undisturbed possession of same under the lease for more than 2 years prior to December 18, 1933.

Plaintiff secured trappers and placed them on this property for the purpose of catching muskrats for their pelts.

During the trapping season, beginning December 1, 1933, and ending March 1, 1934, the defendants, Violet Trapping Company, Inc., and Mirandona Bros., a commercial partnership, through their agents and employees, came upon the lease of plaintiff 18 days…