Poirier v. Burton-Swartz Cypress Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of St. James; Paul Leche, Judge. Action by Mrs. Josephine Poirier and others against the Burton-Swartz Cypress Company. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
This is a petitory action, coupled with a demand in damages for the value of timber alleged to have been wrongfully cut on the land in controversy and removed therefrom. The land is swamp, and has not heretofore been in anybody’s corporeal possession. It is described as N. %, or lots 1, 2, and 3, of section 49, township 12 S., range 15 E., Southeast district of Louisiana, west of river, St. James parish, containing 293.11 acres. It will conduce, perhaps, to clearness in what comes later if we explain here that in St. James parish, as elsewhere in Louisiana along rivers and bayous, the lands…
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