Case ID: la-ann_28/html/0326-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORGAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 6181.
    Marzelie E. Marsh and Husband vs. Julius Sevin and Louis Boniol.
    In this petitory action the evidence in support ot plaintiffs’ title is an “ alleged deed in trust,” which has been lost, and of which there is no record. In Louisiana this is no title.
    In a petitory action the plaintiff must recover entirely upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary’s.
    APPEAL from the Ninth Judicial District Court, parish of Rapides.
    
      S. J. Bowman, attorney-at-law, acting for the district judge, recused.
    
      M. Ryan, TV. F. Blackman, and James G. White, for plaintiffs and appel-lees.
    
      Manning, for defendants and appellants.
   MORGAN, J.

This is a petitory action. Plaintiff claims the property in dispute by right of succession from her father and mother. The evidence in support of her title is an alleged “ deed in trust,” which has been lost, and of which there is no record.

In Louisiana this is no title. In a petitory action the plaintiff must recover entirely upon the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of his adversary’s, and as the plaintiff here has shown no title she must suffer nonsuit.

It is therefore ordered, adjudged, and decreed that the judgment of the district court be avoided, annulled, and reversed, and that there be judgment in favor of the defendant as in case of nonsuit, plaintiff to pay costs in both courts.

Rehearing refused.