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CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. v. BERGERON

No. CA 88 1061.

551 So.2d 746 (1989)

CHEVRON U.S.A. INC. v. Ruffin Leon BERGERON, Jr., Alvin J. Paul, Theresa B.T. Tyes, Ernest L. Gardner, Jr., John B. Garner, Geraldine G. Hall, Joseph A. Taylor, Jr., Karen Taylor Crawford, M.D., Leah Ray Thornton, Cayman Exploration Corp., Albertine T. Davis, Mary Woodfork, Virginia T. Woodfork, and Production Investments, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied December 1, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Christian, New Orleans, for Chevron U.S.A., Inc., plaintiff.

John Wayne Jewell, New Roads, for Alvin J. Paul, et al., defendants.

Davis A. Gueymard, Baton Rouge, for Mary Woodfork and Virginia T. Woodfork, defendants.

James C. Dewey, New Roads, for Ruffin Leon Bergeron, Jr., defendant.

Paul G. Borron, III, Plaquemine, for A. Wilbert's Sons Lumber & Shingle Co., defendant.

Karen Katz Westall, New Orleans, for Amoco Production Co., defendant.

Ernest L. Garner, Jr., Baton Rouge, in pro. per., defendant.

John B. Garner, New Roads, in pro. per., defendant.

Before EDWARDS, LANIER and FOIL, JJ.

FOIL, Judge.

At issue in this appeal is the action of the trial court in allowing concursus claimants who were found to be out of possession of a disputed tract of land sixty days in which to assert their claims of ownership of the property. We hold that the articles governing real actions, with respect to the method of asserting claims of possession and ownership and the burden of proof in those actions, apply to concursus proceedings where the ownership of property...

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