¶1This is an action brought by the plaintiff to recover of the defendant a tract of land upon the Bayou de Siard, containing 400 arpents, and known as the Dawson tract.
¶2The defendant, after a general denial, pleaded that she had been in possession, as owner, for more than a year, of the tract of land, which the plaintiff sued for, and that the same was situated in the Bastrop grant.
¶3Pending the suit the defendant died, and her administrator filed a new answer setting up other matters, some of them inconsistent with the allegations of the first answer. The administrator eould not withdraw the judicial admissions made by the deceased, and, under that view of the case, it becomes immaterial to notice the second answer further.
¶4The locus is thus ascertained beyond dispute by the pleadings. Has the plaintiff made out a sufficient title as against the defendant?
¶5Upon the merits our opinion coincides with that of the District Judge. The defendant, by her written and oral acknowledgements, which were adduced in evidence by the plaintiff upon the trial, that she held under the plaintiff, has precluded herself from disputing his title or availing herself of any formal defects therein. C. C., 3409, 3480 ; Wells v. Hickman, 3 Rob., 3; Broughton v. King, 9 Rob., 217.
¶6The sheriff’s deed is apparently a just title translative of property.
¶7It is unnecessary to discuss the bills of exceptions presented by the defendant’s counsel, as we are satisfied that the deceased defendant possessed as the tenant of the plaintiff.
¶8The plaintiff acquiesces in the adjustment of the question of rents and improvements made by the District Judge.
¶9The judgment is, therefore, affirmed, with costs.