Hurst v. Ricard

WATKINS, Judge.

This is a boundary action brought by Norbert J. Hurst and his co-owners in indi-visión against Evelyn Vallet Ricard and her co-owners in indivisión to fix the boundary between two tracts of land on the lower Chenal of False River, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana.

The basic issue is whether the side bounds of two contiguous tracts of land on the concave side of a curve in what was a navigable stream should be parallel or converging when the property description of the property first sold from a common ancestor in title fails to state which is the case. The trial court held the…