Bedingfield v. Watson

AYRES, Judge.

This action was instituted originally under LSA-R.S. 48:731 et seq., by which plaintiff, asserting the ownership of certain lands bordering Lake Bistineau, enclosed by properties of others, sought a right of way across the adjoining lands of the defendants.

The defendants denied generally plaintiff’s allegations and urged, as a special defense, that they, the defendants, were owners of the property claimed by plaintiff. Their ownership was predicated (1) upon the ground that the property involved was included in certain-described governmental subdivisions which had been acquired…