L-M Co. v. Blanchard

ELLIS, Judge:

These suits, which were consolidated for trial both in the district court and in this court, are slander of title actions, instituted prior to the enactment of the present Code of Civil Procedure. The property involved is some 1440 acres of land in Sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 14 and 15, Township 17 South, Range 14 East, situated in Terre-bonne Parish, Louisiana.

Plaintiffs are the successors in title of E. C. Glenn and C. P. Gable, whose claim to the property is based on a tax adjudication made to them on July 20, 1908.

The defendant in the first suit is Robert P. Blanchard.…