Bailey v. Adkins

The language of the counter letter clearly established in Adkins a conventional usu-fruct over Gahagan’s half-interest. Precise, technical terms are not necessary to create a usufruct. In Haggard v. Rushing, 76 So.2d 52 (La.App. 2nd Cir.1954) it was held that a quitclaim deed which granted defendant the right “to use, without cost, the surface of the south 840 feet” of plaintiff’s property created a usufruct. And in Creech v. Errington, 207 La. 615, 21 So.2d 761 (La.1945) a provision that the donor of property should “have and control said property during his lifetime, collecting and…