FONTENOT v. LEWIS

No. 2472.

215 So.2d 161 (1968)

Courville FONTENOT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jackie H. LEWIS, Frank C. Fontenot, Third-Party Defendant, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

October 31, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tate & Tate, by Donald Tate, Mamou, for plaintiff-appellant.

Daniel J. McGee, Mamou, and Devillier & Ardoin, by J. Winston Ardoin, Eunice, for defendants-appellees.

Before TATE, HOOD and CULPEPPER, JJ.


HOOD, Judge.

This suit was instituted originally as a possessory action by Courville Fontenot against Jackie H. Lewis. Plaintiff demanded that he be restored to possession of a 6.67 acre tract of land in Evangeline Parish. The defendant answered claiming ownership of the property, and thus the suit was converted into a petitory action.

Plaintiff then filed a third party petition, naming Frank C. Fontenot as third party defendant, alleging that the description...

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