Case Name: JOS. CHRISTINA, ET AL., vs. WID. JOS. A. GAUTREAUX
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1915-05-31
Citations: 12 Teiss. 357
Docket Number: No. 6404
Parties: JOS. CHRISTINA, ET AL., vs. WID. JOS. A. GAUTREAUX.
Judges: 
Reporter: Decisions, Court of Appeal, parish of Orleans (Teissier)
Volume: 12
Pages: 357–365

Head Matter:
No. 6404.
JOS. CHRISTINA, ET AL., vs. WID. JOS. A. GAUTREAUX.
Syllabus.
“If any one sells or alienates a piece of land from one fixed boundary to another fixed boundary, the purchaser takes all the land between such bounds, although it give him a greater quantity of land than is called for in his title, and though the surplus exceed the twentieth part of' the quantity mentioned in his title. ’ ’
When lands are sold in accordance with a plan it controls the description contained in the act.
Any ambiguity in act of sale must be construed against the vendor.
Parties acquiring rights to immovables are affected only by the titles such as they are registered.
Appeal from the 28th Judicial District Court, for the Parish of Jefferson. Honorable P. E. Edrington, Judge.
E. A. O’Sullivan, for plaintiff and appellant.
A. E. Billings, for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
His Honor, CHARLES F. CLAIBORNE,
rendered the opinion and decree of the Court, as folllows:
This is a petitory action. Defendant has made a motion to dismiss this appeal on the ground that the matter in dispute exceeds the limit of our jurisdiction. Plaintiff alleges that the property is worth $1,500. Defendant .answers that it is worth $2,250. But in her estimate she includes the value of improvements put up by herself. These are the subject of a reconventional demand which cannot affect the value of the land claimed by the plaintiffs as their property. We therefore conclude that the motion must be denied.