Sprigg v. Hooper
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Disx. APPEAL EROM THE COURT OE TIIE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE PARISH JUDGE OE THE PARISH OE RAPIDES PRESIDING. This is, essentially, a petitory action, and one of bornage. The plaintiff Sprigg, alleges he is the owner of a tract of land, having eight arpents front on Bayou Robert, with the usual depth, bounded above by lands of Fiske, and below by Thomas Hooper, the defendant.
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Western Disx. APPEAL EROM THE COURT OE TIIE SIXTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE PARISH JUDGE OE THE PARISH OE RAPIDES PRESIDING. This is, essentially, a petitory action, and one of bornage. The plaintiff Sprigg, alleges he is the owner of a tract of land, having eight arpents front on Bayou Robert, with the usual depth, bounded above by lands of Fiske, and below by Thomas Hooper, the defendant. The plaintiff further alleges, that Hooper formerly instituted suit against him for a part of this land, and praying that boundaries be fixed between them, but that a decree was rendered in his favor, fixing…
1Opinion of the CourtMatthews, J.
This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff and intervenor, Fiske, claim titles to land adjoining a tract in *352possession of the defendant, and require a boundary to be established and fixed between the parties. A jury to whom the case was submitted, found a verdict by which the defendant was quieted in his possession of the disputed premises; and, from a judgment rendered thereon, the plaintiffs appealed_ ;
Where the de-iendanlisinpos-session, and the ncTtiflef he cannot recover. is no judgment between61 C!the same parties, about the contested premises, the plea of res judicata cannot be…
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