Verret v. Johnson

This appeal involves a dispute between adjacent landowners regarding the existence of a predial servitude of passage.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

In 2006, plaintiff, Ms. Pauline G. Verret, purchased from Mr. Barry Marionneaux a parcel of land consisting of approximately 22.899 acres in Iberville Parish and designated as Tract M-1 on a survey map done by Triche Land Surveying, Inc. According to the legal description in the act of sale, Tract M-1 "fronts on a 40' private access servitude" (forty-foot right-of-way). Subsequently, in 2009, Mr. Marionneaux sold land designated in the Triche survey…