Davis v. Brent

|, The defendants, June Brent, Nell Thomas and Raymond Lamar, Jr., appeal a judgment declaring that a 1949 deed granted them a servitude of passage over a 50-foot driveway located on land owned by the plaintiff, James Davis. The court found that the language of the deed did not convey fee ownership. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS

This case involves immovable property known as Southwood Plantation (“South-wood”), which is located in Tensas Parish. In 1949, the owner of the land, A.B. Coit, sold a 68-acre parcel of land, known as the “Fowler Tract,” to Ernest and Jewel Garland.…