Joffrion v. Scioneaux

EDWARDS, Judge.

From a trial court judgment dismissing their petitory action, plaintiffs appeal. We reverse.

Plaintiffs sought to be declared the owners of a certain tract of land along Bayou Corne in Assumption Parish. The record reveals that plaintiffs purchased the land from Daniel Porta, who purchased the land from Edward Scioneaux, thus creating the unusual circumstance of a defendant in the plaintiffs’ chain of title. Defendants,1 on the other hand, claim they never sold the land. In any event, they maintain that they have lived on the property since 1979, when they acquired the land, and…