Maginnis Land & Improvement Co. v. Marcello

This is a petitory action. The land involved in the suit is a narrow strip of batture on the left side of Bayou Lafourche, near the village of Donaldsonville, and lying between the water’s edge of the bayou and the public road on the left bank of that stream.

The appeal is by the defendants from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs as prayed for in the petition.

There is nothing in the record indicative of the area nor value of the land sued for. The petition consists of three paragraphs.-. The first describes the property sued for by-boundaries only; the second relates to the title by which,…