Landry v. Dufour

YELVERTON, Judge.

Twelve individual plaintiffs (whose names are listed in footnote one below),1 alleging that they together owned an undivided one-fifth interest in 160 acres in Avo-yelles Parish, sued three defendants (named in footnote two below)2 as co-owners demanding a partition by licitation. The defendants answered denying plaintiffs’ ownership and their consequent right to a partition contending that one of the defendants, Tyrone H. Dufour, was in possession of the entire property as sole owner under a valid title or, alternatively, based on acquisitive prescription.

Following trial the…