Gay v. Ellis
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twentieth Judicial District Court, parish of Lafourche. Knoblock, J. First — Ellis, by answering to Gay’s suit for slander of title, by setting up title to Secs. 92, 340, and 150 of T. 15, S. R. 16 E, changed the suit into a petitory action, in which he became plaintiff, and he must succeed or fail on the strength of his own title. 27 An. 307 j Bidwell vs. Caveroc, 18 La. 103 j 5 R 22 j 24 An. 511. Second — Gay holds by prescription of ten and twenty years,…
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APPEAL from the Twentieth Judicial District Court, parish of Lafourche. Knoblock, J. First — Ellis, by answering to Gay’s suit for slander of title, by setting up title to Secs. 92, 340, and 150 of T. 15, S. R. 16 E, changed the suit into a petitory action, in which he became plaintiff, and he must succeed or fail on the strength of his own title. 27 An. 307 j Bidwell vs. Caveroc, 18 La. 103 j 5 R 22 j 24 An. 511. Second — Gay holds by prescription of ten and twenty years, having a just title therefor, and possession for over twenty years, the greater part, if not the whole, being under…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
The plaintiff, alleging himself to be the owner of a certain sugar plantation, situated in the parish of Lafourche, and described in his petition, brought this suit against the defendant, charging slander of his title to a portion of the lands embraced in the plantation, and claimed the relief usual to such actions. The defendant answered and reconvened, setting up title in himself to certain lots, sufficiently described, for the purposes of this suit-, as lots Nos. 92,140, and 150; averring that Gay pretends to hold title to said lots and…
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