Coignet v. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Co.

ROGERS, Justice.

Plaintiffs, the grandchildren of Charles Francois Gaude, brought this suit against the Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company, Limited, to recover $32,000 as damages for the alleged illegal cutting of cypress timber on a certain tract of land owned by them. Plaintiffs allege that the trespass was committed “some time during the year 1901, or thereabouts,” but that they learned of the trespass only on July 9, 1928. Their suit was filed on February 18, 1929.

After A. B. Hagen, who had been cited as the manager of the defendant corporation, filed certain documents in the record showing…