Buras v. United Gas Pipe Line Co.

HAMITER, Justice.

In the petition of this trespass action the plaintiff, Paul Peter Buras, alleged that the defendants, United Gas Pipe Line Company and the Louisiana Fruit Company, are indebted unto him in the sum of $13,500; that he is the owner of a tract of land situated in Plaquemines Parish on the right bank of the Mississippi River measuring one ar-pent front on such river by a depth of about forty arpents; that on or about August 15, 1951, pursuant to a right of way servitude purchased from the fruit company, the pipe line company “did illegally and torturously trespass” on his…