Citizens' Bank of Louisiana v. Jeansonne
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fourteenth' Judicial District Court, Parish of Avoyelles; Gregory Horatio Couvillon, Judge. Action by the Citizens’ Bank of Louisiana against Ernest Jeansonne and others. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
This is a petitory action to recover the E. V2 of section 30, township 1, N., range 3 E., situated in the parish of Avo-yelles. Plaintiff also sued to recover $1,000 damages for timber cut and removed by the defendant, alleged to be a mere trespasser on the premises.
On exception, the plaintiff filed an amended petition, setting forth that it purchased in 1868 at sheriff’s sale the undivided half of the land in dispute as the property of H. M. Keary, who at the date of said sale owned the whole of said half section, having acquired the same in a partition made in 1850 with one Jabez Tanner.
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2Cases cited5 opinions
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