PORTER v. ACADIA-VERMILION IRR. CO., INC.

No. 84-927.

479 So.2d 1003 (1985)

Weston PORTER, et ux., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ACADIA-VERMILION IRRIGATION CO., INC., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 11, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dan Keefe, Lafayette, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Broadhurst, Brook, Mangham, Hardy & Reed, Randall Karr, Lafayette, for defendant-appellee.

Before GUIDRY, DOUCET and LABORDE, JJ.


GUIDRY, Judge.

Plaintiffs, Weston J. Porter, Sr. and Hazel Porter, instituted this suit against Acadia-Vermilion Irrigation Co., Inc. (AVICO) seeking a judgment declaring that a certain instrument, executed by their ancestor in title on December 22, 1910, conveyed a servitude over a strip of land for canal purposes rather than the fee title to such strip. The trial court ruled in defendant's favor, holding that the instrument conveyed fee title to the disputed strip...

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