Pruitt v. Barry

CARTER, Judge.

This is a suit for damages arising out of an encroachment allegedly constructed by Billy Ray Pruitt and Betty Jo Spencer Pruitt on the property of Dr. Richard M. Hill and Barbara Stice Hill.

BACKGROUND

During mid-1982, the Pruitts began operating, as lessee, a Mobil Oil Corporation service station located at the intersection of Monterrey Boulevard and Greenwell Springs Road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, under the trade name of Park Forest Mobil. On January 22,1986, the Pruitts obtained a right of first refusal to purchase the Mobil property. The Pruitts subsequently negotiated with…