Smith v. Shaw

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The defendants are appealing from the judgment of the District Court decreeing the plaintiffs to be the owners of four certain parcels of real property in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, and rejecting the demands in reconvention filed- by the defendants in which the latter sought to be recognized as owners of an undivided interest therein.

The proceeding arose as a slander of title suit, the plaintiffs, Mrs. Catherine S. Smith and Mrs. Sue Belle J. Boutchee, alleging actual possession of the property and ownership thereof by virtue of a judgment of court in the Succession o'f…