Patin v. Blaize
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Dis- APPEAL EROM THE COURT OE THE EIETH DISTRICT, EOR THE PARISH OE ST, LANDRY, TIIE JUDGE OE THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is an. action of trespass claiming damages from the defendant, for cutting cypress and making Pieux on plaintiff’s land.
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Western Dis- APPEAL EROM THE COURT OE THE EIETH DISTRICT, EOR THE PARISH OE ST, LANDRY, TIIE JUDGE OE THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is an. action of trespass claiming damages from the defendant, for cutting cypress and making Pieux on plaintiff’s land. The plaintiff alleges he is owner of 12 arpents front with the usual depth on the north side of the Bayou Plaquemine BruUe, the head waters of the river Mermentou, in the parish of St. Landry, and that the defendant has entered on said land without right or title, “and between the months of May and August in the year 1S39, cut down cypress trees…
1Opinion of the CourtGarland, J.
The plaintiff alleges he is the owner and' proprietor of a *398tract of land “containing twelve arpents front, on the north ^ gay0U piaquemine, of the head waters of the river Mermentou,” and that he and those under whom he claims have had quiet possession of the same for more tha.n thirty years. He further represents, that the defendant has gone upon the ‘land, knowing the same to belong to him, and has' committed various acts of trespass and waste by cutting down valuable cypress and other trees, making Pieux and boards thereof, and converting them to his own use, to his damage $350. He prays…
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