Ranger Land Co. v. Story

Learned counsel for plaintiff assign as principal error in our opinion the holding that the defendant had taken corporeal possession of the land by fencing it some forty or fifty years ago, and that it was not necessary for him to show that the property remained continuously enclosed for thirty years in order for him to acquire ownership of the land by the prescription of thirty years. We held that the enclosure of the land by having the lines run and a fence placed around it was such corporeal possession as is required by Article 3501 of the Civil Code, and this corporeal possession having…