Tircuit v. Burton-Swartz Cypress Co.

This case is the afiermath of the case of Josephine Poirier et al. v. Burton-Swartz Cypress Co. (this same defendant), reported in 127 La. 936, 54 So. 292.

We annex below a composite sketch of the various surveys and essays at surveys which have been made of the lands about which this controversy hinges. The sketch is not drawn to scale, but all measurements are given, and on the whole it is sufficiently accurate to afford a just idea of the lay of the land.

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In 1848 Michel Poirier was the owner of a sugar plantation in St. James parish on the west bank of the Mississippi river, measuring about…