Jones v. Goss
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Acadia; Thomas Rutland Smith, Judge ad hoc. Action by Winston Jones and others against Louisa Goss and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtProvostv, J.
This is a possessory action. The land involved is the E. % of section 28. It is part’ of the open prairie, its boundaries having never been marked otherwise than by the corner posts of the original government surveys.
*477Plaintiffs are the undisputed owners of‘-the other half of the section, and also of the two contiguous sections, the three sections forming one body of land. They are also the undisputed owners of a much larger body of land in the immediate neighborhood, but disconnected. Their title embraces the land in dispute. Their lands are looked after by an agent; they being residents of…
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