Searles v. Costillo

The defendant appeals from a judgment again'st him in* a possessory action.

The: plaintiff offered a witness, who proved that the land1 which is the'object of the action has been lying vacant and unoccupied ever since the plaintiff pretends to have acquired it, up to the time of the alleged disturbance by thé defendant-.

To show possession as owner, the plaintiff offered a parish tax collector’s deed purporting to have conveyed this land to him on the 4th January, 1849,-it being, sold- for taxes said to be due upon it by Elilm Henderson's heirs,- for the year 1847: he also offered1 the…