GILLAN v. JONES

No. 9848.

157 So.2d 598 (1963)

Mrs. Marion W. GILLAN, Mrs. Jean G. Jacobson and Harry A. Jacobson, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Appellants, v. Shirley T. JONES, J. Newton Jones, L. Kenneth Jones, Howard L. Jones, Edgar Carneal Woodyear, DeWitt Smith, (Except E. C. Woodyear, who is not Appellant) Defendants-Appellants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 1963.

Writ Refused January 20, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Theus, Grisham, Davis, Leigh & Brown, Monroe, Teller & Biedenharn, Vicksburg, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellees-appellants.

Thompson, Thompson & Sparks, Monroe, Brandon, Brandon, Hornsby & Handy, Natchez, Miss., Davenport, Kelly & Farr, Monroe, Spencer, Sevier & Adams, Tallulah, for defendants-appellants-appellees.

Before HARDY, GLADNEY and AYRES, JJ.


HARDY, Judge.

Plaintiffs instituted this suit as a possessory action, coupled with a demand for damages in the nature of trespass for the wrongful cutting of timber on an extensive tract of land located in the Mississippi River in Madison Parish, Louisiana.

The present plaintiffs are Mrs. Marion Gillan, a resident of the State of Nebraska, and Mrs. Jean G. Jacobson, a resident of the State of Mississippi, who was...

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