Generes v. Bowie Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twentieth. District Court, Parish of Lafourche; William E.- Howell, Judge. Petitory action, coupled with an action in damages for trespass, by George A. Generes against the Bowie Lumber Company. Judgment maintaining defendant’s plea of prescription in part and overruling it in part, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
This is a petitory action to recover two tracts of swamp land in the defendant’s possession. The plaintiff claims also $47,100.56, alleged to be the value of forest timber taken from the lands by the defendant. The lands are described as the N. Ys of N. W. % of section 4, and all of that portion except the N. E. *4 of N. E. % of section 6 that lies on the north side of Bayou Chevruil, in T. 14 S., R. 18 E., in the Southeastern district of Louisiana, west of the Mississippi river.
The plaintiff claims title by inheritance from his parents, Louis F. Generes and Mrs. Josephine Abat Generes, his…
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