Becnel v. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. John the Baptist; Prentice E. Edrington, Judge. Petitory action by Gaston Becnel and others against the Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company. From a judgment for defendants; plaintiffs appeal, and defendant moves to dismiss.
1Opinion
On the Merits.
SOMMERVILLE, J.
Plaintiffs, having recently attained their majority, alleging *475themselves to be the owners of two-fifths of an undivided half of a certain piece of timber swamp land in the possession of defendant, bring this petitory action, and ask that they be declared the owners of two-tenths of the whole of said property. They allege that their mother, as natural tutrix, in the course of the administration of their property inherited from their father, illegally and without authority sold their interests in said property to the author of defendant; that the sale was null and…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Lalanne's Heirs v. MoreauSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1839
- Kaffie v. WilsonSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1911
- Dauterive v. ShawSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1895
- Mallard v. DejanSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1893
- Succession of HawkinsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1883
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