Hammond Lumber Co. v. Higgins

DORE, Judge.

Plaintiff instituted this petitory action in which it seeks to be decreed the owner and be put in possession of the south half of Headright No. 38, Tp. 6, R. 8, in Tangi-pahoa parish, containing 320 acres. Plaintiff sets out the chain of title by which it acquired said property, and alleges that the defendant has taken possession of a part of an 80-acre tract contained in the larger tract and refuses to surrender possession of the same. The defendant sets up title to the 80-acre tract from W. Lee Stevens in 1925 and avers that she and her authors in title have been in possession…