Williams Cypress Co. v. Dugas

ON REHEARING

LECHE, J.

Plaintiff complains that we have erred in holding that the standing trees in suit became mobilized when it acquired the same as a distinct and separate estate. Plaintiff did not own and does not claim ever to have owned the soil to which the trees were attached, the title to the soil being then in the author of defendants. It has always been our conception of the law that when the owner of the soil or the immovable, sells any of its accessories, the accessories when sold .become mobilized in anticipation by their change of ownership; that in order to form part of the…