Peytavin v. Winter
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT'. The plaintiff alleges he is owner and possessor of a tract of land in the parish of Ascension with a front of árpente and depth of forty arpents; and the forty arpents in depth on his back line he claims by right of pre-emption and occupancy for twenty years and that it has been surveyed for his use: that he has been and was in the quiet and peaceable possession of said lands, and the drains necessary to the use of the…
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT'. The plaintiff alleges he is owner and possessor of a tract of land in the parish of Ascension with a front of árpente and depth of forty arpents; and the forty arpents in depth on his back line he claims by right of pre-emption and occupancy for twenty years and that it has been surveyed for his use: that he has been and was in the quiet and peaceable possession of said lands, and the drains necessary to the use of the front land on the river have always emptied into and passed through the back tract of land into the swamp: that in…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case was remanded from this court at May term, 1832, on the reversal of the judgment of the District Court, and the setting aside the verdict on the ground that the *559amount of damages found by the jury, (one thousand dollars) was not authorised by the evidence. Vide 4 La. Rep. 46.
It is too late to present a bill of )((jSiorljyto ¿o menu^reiXred", j^aólftótho del the trial, in an action of trespass for dama$es t0 th® plaintiff's land, in w’lioh the petition alleges ownership “ntSapSyw fhe^ury^re'éí SLuoT of tie. acüInofti-¿"pa™ Í, ounces'5™ Ptho…
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- Peytavin v. WinterSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1832
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