Brasseaux v. Ducote

This is a possessory action, coupled with a demand for damages, in which the plaintiff, Mrs. Leona Briant, widow of Albert S. Brasseaux, claims that the defendant, Ambrose M. Ducote, under a pretense that the property which she possesses was a public street, removed a barbed wire fence on the eastern line thereof, took actual, physical and corporeal possession of the same and has planted shrubbery and trees thereon.

She sets out fully the manner of her acquisition of the property which adjoins Lot No. 7 in Square No. 26 of the Town of St. Francisville which is also her property, by virtue of…