Capra v. Viola

This is a petitory action wherein the plaintiff seeks to be declared the owner of a small portion of ground lying at a distance of 65 feet, 2 inches and 4 lines from the corner of Royal and Kerlerec streets, and measuring 11 inches, and 4 lines front on Kerlerec street by a depth of 95 feet, 11 inches and a width in the rear of one foot, 2 inches and 7 lines. Plaintiff relied first, upon his record title and secondly pleaded prescriptions of 5, 10 and 30 .years, based upon actual physical possession by his predecessors in title for forty or more years prior to March, 1918.

The defendant, in…