Becnel v. Waguespack
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twenty-sixth District Court, Parish of St. John the Baptist. Bost, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Fenner, J.
The plaintiff claims $15,000 for 3000 trees alleged to have been cut by defendant on his land.
The petition affords no better desciiption of the locus of the alleged trespass than the simple setting out the metes and bounds of a track belonging to plaintiff of about 2000 acres, and no more particular designation of the time than the allegation that it was committed ‘‘ during the high water of 1884.”
That high water was occasioned by the Davis crevasse, which is shown to have occurred on March 8, 1884, and lasted through the month of June.
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