Barret v. Hickman

This is a possessory action with an additional claim for damages for trespass involving a strip of ground approximately twenty feet in width, running from Fairfield Avenue to Thornhill Avenue in the City of Shreveport. The disturbance alleged consists of erecting and maintaining of a fence approximately twenty feet north of the south boundary of the land claimed by plaintiff and of which he claims he and his author in title have peaceably possessed for more than thirty years.

Plaintiff's demands were rejected by the lower court and he is now prosecuting this appeal.

On November 12, 1901, Ernest…