Case Name: YARBOROUGH vs. PALMER
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1836-06
Citations: 10 La. 140
Docket Number: 
Parties: YARBOROUGH vs. PALMER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 140–141

Head Matter:
YARBOROUGH vs. PALMER.
EASTERN Ur ST.
June, 1836.
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF TIIE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING.
ON A REHEARING.
In. a possessory action, a plea in reconvention involving title, will be disregarded; but the right of the defendant in such cases, to attack the title of the plaintiff in a direct action, will be reserved.
In. a possessory action, a plea in reconvention involving title, will be disregarded ^ but the right of tire defendant, in such •cases, to attaek the title of the plaintiff* in a direct action, will be reserved.
. This case came before the Supreme Court, then sitting'at Baton Rouge, at August term, 1834. It is a possessory action, in which the court refused to act on a plea in recon-vention, set up in the answer of the defendant, and involving the question of title to the premises in controversy. The court, in the opinion herein pronounced, reviewed their former decision. See the case reported in 7 La. Rep., 153. •
Andrews, for the plaintiff.
JBoyle and Turner, contra.

Opinion:
•Mathews, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This case was decided at the August term of the court, held at Baton Rouge, in 1834, and is now before us on a rehearing. In the decision rendered, we considered the action as exclusively 'possessory, and gave judgment in favor of tlie possessor, Yarborough, who had held the property in dispute, peaceably, and under color of title, for more than one year previous to the institution of the present suit.
This view of the cause was taken notwithstanding a plea in reconvention, which had a direct tendency to bring into litigation (he title of the plaintiff who had been in possession a length of time sufficient to support his possessory action. In the judgment then rendered, we reserved the right of the defendant to litigate as to title by a direct action. The suit in reconvention was not in so many words ordered to be dismissed, but the reservations of the defendant's right to attack the title of the plaintiff in a direct action, virtually abolished all the proceedings in the case which involved questions as to title.
We think the judgment pronounced, as above stated, was correct. It is, therefore, ordered, that it remain undisturbed.