Kittridge v. Landry
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the District Court of Assumption, Nicholls, J. The defendant acquired the tract of land as represented in the survey made by Grinage in 1825, in good faith, and by a just title, and has been ever since in the continu-crus, uninterrupted, peaceable, public, and unequivocal possession thereof as owner, and is entitled to the benefit of the prescription of ten years. Civ.
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Appeal from the District Court of Assumption, Nicholls, J. The defendant acquired the tract of land as represented in the survey made by Grinage in 1825, in good faith, and by a just title, and has been ever since in the continu-crus, uninterrupted, peaceable, public, and unequivocal possession thereof as owner, and is entitled to the benefit of the prescription of ten years. Civ. Code, arts. 843, 849, 3442, 3445, 3449, 3450, Nos. 1, 2, 3. The notarial act recognizing the line run by Bonnet, executed by A. L. Blanc and others, was improperly rejected. The plaintiff is not a third person. He…
1Opinion of the CourtGarland, J.
The petitioner represents that on the 3d of May, 1822, André Le Blanc was the owner and proprietor of a tract of *73land in the parish of Assumption, on the bayou Lafourche, containing five arpens front, by forty in depth, bounded above by the land of Paul Landry, and below by that of Jean Louis Landry. That on the day aforesaid, and on the 28th of August, 1824, the said Le Blanc, in compliance with two acts of Congress, passed on the 11th of May, 1820, and the 28th of February, 1823, authorizing the inhabitants of Louisiana to enter the lands adjacent to, and in the rear of their front tracts,…
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