Tremont Lumber Co. v. Powers & Critchett Lumber Co.

This is a suit to be decreed the owner of one hundred and sixty acres of land, lying in the parish of La Salle, and to enjoin defendants from trespassing on the property. The issues presented are as to whether the titles of the defendant, the Powers & Critchett Lumber-Company, are simulated, as to whether a plea of ten years’ prescription, acquirendi causa, filed by plaintiff, should be sustained, and likewise whether pleas of ten and twenty years’ prescription, filed by the Powers & Critchett Lumber Company, should be upheld.

The triál judge found that the record did not disclose that the…