Rankin v. Bell
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the District Court of West Feliciana, Burk, J. contended that the prescription of thirty years under art. 1228 of the Civil Code, does not bar this action, there having been only nine years of adverse possession by defendants during which prescription was not suspended by minority. C. C. 3488.
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the court was pronounced by
Rost, J.
This is a petitory action. The facts are briefly as follows : Lucy Hall was the owner of l.he slaves Philip and Tempe. She died in 1813, leaving as her legitimate issue Burr S., and Thomas H. Hall and Harriett B. Hall, then married to John Stafford. No proceedings were had in her succession, and no inventory ever made ; but the evidence admitted by-the judge satisfactorily shows that at her death the two brothers retained the possession of the slave Philip, and that her sister had possession in the same manner of the slave Tempe. This…
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