McCall v. Irion
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from tlie Twelfth. District Court for the Parish of Avoyelles. Oooo, J. Where defendants are sued for a tract of land as trespassers, and they exhibit a judgment regularly obtained, an execution issued thereon, and a sheriff’s deed to their vendors followed by more than ten years uninterrupted possession as owners, the plea of prescription will be sustained, and their title cannot be assailed by the former owner or liis heirs. 2 B. 466; 3 Ann. 8. Where defendants show…
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APPEAL from tlie Twelfth. District Court for the Parish of Avoyelles. Oooo, J. Where defendants are sued for a tract of land as trespassers, and they exhibit a judgment regularly obtained, an execution issued thereon, and a sheriff’s deed to their vendors followed by more than ten years uninterrupted possession as owners, the plea of prescription will be sustained, and their title cannot be assailed by the former owner or liis heirs. 2 B. 466; 3 Ann. 8. Where defendants show a divestiture of plaintiff’s title by a judgment regularly obtained, an execution issued thereon, and a sheriff’s deed…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
This case was before us at Opelousas in July, 1888. Vide 40th Annual at page 690 et sequentes. Therein a full and explicit statement of the pleadings was given and it need not he repeated here. It will suffice, for all present purposes, to restate a few leading facts as pertinent to a trial on the merits.
This is a petitory action in the ordinary form, in which Mrs. McCall, as plaintiff, sets up a title in herself, to an undivided one-half interest in the Beverly or Sans Souei plantation, in the Parish of Avoyelles, by inheritance, she…
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