Merritt v. Smith

Plaintiff filed this petitory action praying to be decreed owner of forty acres of land in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, including the tract of five acres (later shown on survey to be nine and a fraction acres) in the southeast corner, which he alleged that defendant possessed and refused to deliver to plaintiff.

In his answer, defendant set forth that he had secured a judgment of court, in a possessory action, quieting his possession of these southeastern corner acres and further setting forth that he had acquired same in August, 1918, as a portion of the "Leary Place;" that this contested…