Jones v. Goss

Citations

• 115 La. 926
• 40 So. 357
• 1906 La. LEXIS 439

Syllabus

<p>1. Property — Possession — What Constitutes — Ouster.</p> <p>Actual possession of part with title to the whole and intention to possess the whole_ is possession of the whole; and actual possession thus commenced is continued by mere civil possession until ousted by a counter actual possession of one year.</p> <p>2. Adverse Possession — Visible Possession.</p> <p>In the case of open prairie land, such civil possession, continuing an actual possession, is not ousted by the act of plowing one or more furrows around the land, where the evidence shows that persons passed over the land without seeing these furrows, which probably had in a short time become hidden by being grown up with grass.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>