Myers v. Burke

OTT, Judge.

The petition alleges that the plaintiff and the defendant entered into an agreement by which, for the sum of one dollar per year, the defendant agreed to permit plaintiff to build a house on and occupy a certain tract of land on the Calcasieu River, in which agreement it was understood that all improvements placed on the land by the plaintiff would belong to him; that should the land be sold, or the defendant desire possession thereof, plaintiff would remove his improvements from the land within a reasonable time; that plaintiff built a five room house on said land, and despite the…