August v. Hamilton

BOUTALL, Judge.

This is a petitory action in which plaintiff asserts title ownership of a tract of land against a party in possession. The defendant answered and reconvened claiming to be owner both under a prior title to a *962portion of the land and under 30 year acquisitive prescription possession. The trial court recognized the defendant to be the owner. We affirm.

The property in question was originally obtained by Jacques (Numa) Montz through a partition amongst the Montz heirs. The two lots at issue, Nos. 1 and 2, adjoin each other and form an irregular parallelogram measuring approximately…