Hiestand v. Forsyth

This is a petitory action. The plaintiff sets up title to a certain tract of land or plantation, together with the improvements thereon erected, situated at the English Turn, parish of Plaquemine, and known by the name of Woodville, being about 17 árpente front, on the river Mississippi, by 40 in depth, bounded above by the land of M’Millen and Roselius, and below by the land of Arneaux Lanneau, which plantation is his property, with the exception of six lots, each measuring 90 feet front, on the public road, by 180 feet in depth, and is the same which formerly belonged to the defendant, who,…