De Bakey v. Prater

Owners of contiguous estates have a right, as a matter of law, Civil Code, art. 823 et seq., to have their boundary limits fixed and recognized when none exists. In this case such a necessity exists, hut the judgment appealed from rejects plaintiff’s demand without recognizing and fixing any boundary limits between the parties, leaving the situation as it existed before the suit was filed, which was in itself an error.

The case, McCahill v. Wood, 4 La. App. 621, cited by the plaintiff, is not applicable to the present case. The opinion in the McCahill Case states -that the defendants urged the…