Reeves v. Towles
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Western Dist. APPEAL FBOM THE COURT OP THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is a petitory action. The plaintiff claims a tract of land on the Bayou Téche, containing eight arpents front, with the depth of forty, situated immediately below that on which the defendant resides, and calling to bind on his lower line. The defendant’s residence is on what is called the “Gravenberg tract.” He is also in possession of the locus in quo.
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Western Dist. APPEAL FBOM THE COURT OP THE FIFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE SEVENTH PRESIDING. This is a petitory action. The plaintiff claims a tract of land on the Bayou Téche, containing eight arpents front, with the depth of forty, situated immediately below that on which the defendant resides, and calling to bind on his lower line. The defendant’s residence is on what is called the “Gravenberg tract.” He is also in possession of the locus in quo. The plaintiff alleges that he is the owner of this tract of land, which lies on the right or west side of the Bayou Téche, descending,…
1Opinion of the Court
Bullard,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff sets up title to a tract of land, of eight arpents front, on the Bayou Teche, with a depth of forty, bounded above by land of B. Graven-berg. The title exhibited by him consists of a confirmation by act of congress, in 1816, of the claim of Patrick Johnson for a tract as above described, á conveyance by Johnson to John Reeves, and the adjudication of the same to the present plaintiff, at the probate sale of John Reeves’s estate. On the township plat, in the land office, this tract is represented as…
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