Carroll v. Holton

ALFORD, Judge.

This litigation involves a boundary dispute between owners of contiguous tracts of land. The trial judge ruled in favor of plaintiffs-appellees, the owners of what will be referred to herein as the Howe tract, and against defendant-appellant, Lytell I. Holton, owner of the Holton tract.

Plaintiffs owned property in Ascension Parish, described as the “fractional East Half of Southeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 2, Township 9 South, Range 3 East ... containing twenty (20) acres ...” Defendant’s tract was contiguous to and adjoined on two sides the Howe tract. (See…