Harper v. Learned

HIGGINS, Justice.

The plaintiff, one of several riparian proprietors, instituted this action against the defendant to have the boundary between their respective batture properties in Tensas Parish fixed and thereby determine the extent of the ownership of each party in the approximate 2,000 acres of batture formed by accretion along the banks of the Mississippi River. He also sought damages for the alleged wrongful removal of timber from a part of the 1,600 acres of the batture land claimed by him, and for injunctive relief against further alleged trespass. Other owners of property adjacent to…