Barrios v. Yoars

JANVIER, Judge.

These cases are consolidated and, since most of the facts involved in all of them are identical, we deem it expedient to render one opinion.

Each of the plaintiffs is a trapper and each, for years prior to the events herein recited, had obtained his principal income by trapping muskrats on marsh lands situated between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the City of New Orleans. For some time tjtere had been a controversy between the land-owners, including Fred Yoars, the present defendant, and some of the trappers, including the plaintiffs, concerning the rights of the…