Pousson v. Porche

The judgment of the court, was pronounced by

Pkeston, J.

The plaintiff alleges, that he is the owner of a tract of land, which he cultivates as a cotton plantation, in the rear of the plantations fronting upon Fausse river; that he cannot pass to the public road on that river without passing over one of the front plantations; that there is a private road on the upper part of the defendant’s plantation, which the proprietors in the rear have used for thirty years, and that there is no other place in the neighborhood by which his plantation is surrounded, by which he can pass and repass to the…