Bourgeat v. Bourgeat
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF POINT COUPEE, THE JUDGE OF THE SECOND PRESIDING.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF POINT COUPEE, THE JUDGE OF THE SECOND PRESIDING. This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff alleges that the defendant, (who claims in right of his deceased ancestor, Zenon Bourgeat,) adjoins his plantation above on the Mississippi, and sets up title and claim to a part of his land, as follows: viz., beginning at the upper boundary of petitioner’s land, and running towards the rear, eighty arpents in depth, by a line diverging upon petitioner’s tract, about two degrees, and striking the back line,…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff asserts title to a tract of land under a purchase, at probate sale, having a front of eight arpents, and twenty toises and one-third, on the Mississippi, by a depth of eighty arpents, the side lines diverging about six degrees, so as to contain about one thousand and ten superficial arpents. He complains that the defendant has taken possession of, and set up a title to a part of said tract, forming a triangle, extending the whole depth of the tract.
Where the expressions in the title convey three arpents front, with the depth of eighty, the…
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