Industrial Lumber Co. v. Farque

This suit was instituted as an action in jactitation. The defendants, in their answers, deny that plaintiff has any title in the property involved in the suit, but set up title thereto in themselves. Both the plaintiff and defendants plead the prescription of 10 years aequirendi causa.

Whether this is a possessory or petitory action, or whether it is merely a suit for slander of title, are issues which need not be discussed here, for, in our opinion, the trial judge correctly found, as a fact, that plaintiff took physical possession of the property shortly after the recordation of its deed…