Self v. Hutton

EDWARDS, Judge.

Plaintiff, Fannie T. Self, brought a pos-sessory action against Jessie Hutton and twenty-two other named defendants. Plaintiff sought to be recognized as the possessor of a certain 41.36 acre tract in St. Helena Parish and prayed for judgment ordering defendants to assert their claim of ownership in a petitory action within sixty days after judgment or to be thereafter precluded from so doing.

Defendants denied that plaintiff was in actual possession of the property, urged that they possessed as owners by virtue of inheritance, and claimed that Fannie Self, with their…