Erath Sugar Co. v. Broussard

TATE, Judge.

By this action the plaintiff company seeks to be declared the owner and entitled to the possession of a certain fifty-foot strip of ground. The trial court sustained an exception of no cause of action and dismissed this suit, and the plaintiff appeals. The principal question posed by the appeal is *545whether the plaintiff is entitled to proceed by a declaratory judgment action.

In the first paragraph of his petition it is alleged that “Plaintiff brings this action under the declaratory judgment laws of the State of Louisiana, R.S. 13:4231 et seq”.. By the petition’s prayer, the…