Gumbel v. New Orleans Terminal Co.

ROGERS, Justice.

This is a petitory action in which the plaintiff is the appellant from a judgment recognizing his ownership of the property-claimed, subject to a servitude in favor of the defendant for railroad purposes, arising from unopposed occupancy. The judgment also reserves the rights of the parties as to any claims for damages, compensation, or other items which plaintiff may have against the defendant for its use and occupancy of the property, no monetary recovery having been sought in the suit.

Plaintiff alleges ownership by his purchase on November 10, 1913, of a square of ground in…