Posey v. Caldwell

This is a petitory action in which .plaintiff seeks to be decreed the owner and. to be placed in possession of an undivided interest in property which, he alleges, was acquired by inheritance from his mother and brother.

The defendant admitted plaintiff’s allegations as to the manner ■ in which the property was acquired, and set up the following special defences:

1. The prescription of ten years under a title alleged to have been translative of property, acquired in good faith, and possession for more than ten years.

2. A plea of estoppel, in which the defendant alleges that she had acquired the…