Johnson v. Congregation Daughters of the Cross

This is a petitory action in which plaintiff claims to be the owner of a certain triangular portion of ground in possession df the defendant, in the city of Shreveport. The land in dispute is alleged to-' be all that part of lot 12 of the Fairfield Subdivision, Caddo parish, lying south and east -of the Norris Ferry road (St. Vincent’s avenue). Plaintiff’s title is founded upon an act of sale executed by Moore, trustee of Thomas L. Hammett, bankrupt, before Thurber, notary, on October 7, 1922.

Defendant denied that any part of said land lies south and east of the Norris Ferry road. It averred…