Delaune v. Williams

I concur in the result reached herein. In my opinion, the Courts of this state have in the past so interpreted Articles 1304, 1305 and 1306 of the Civil Code as to engraft onto them the requirements for acquisitive prescription and certain common law rules relating to prescription between co-owners which are not present in our code. Crayton v. Waters, 146 La. 238, 83 So. 540 (1919); Liles v. Pitts, 145 La. 650, 82 So. 735 (1919); Southeastern Public Service Company v. Barras, 246 So.2d 298 (La.App. 3 Cir. 1971).

I believe these interpretations to be fundamentally erroneous. In my opinion,…