Cease and Desist From Obstructing ROBA Rights

Mr. Robert L. Lucien, Sr. 

P.O. BOX 51386

New Orleans, Louisiana 70151 

Mr. William Joseph Hall

233 Idle Acres Lane

Amite, Louisiana 70422

Certified Receipt No: 7008 1830 0004 1198 7243

April 28, 2011                           

Re:  NOTICE TO CEASE AND DESIST FROM OBSTRUCTING ROBA INC.’S RIGHT OF ACCESSS TO HIGHWAY 1047.

Mr. Hall,

     Please take note:

This letter is to advise you that pursuant to my family’s original purchase of property from James B. Courtney, ten years in advance of your purchase and pursuant to the clear and precise language of the law as it relates to ownership of property:

“That certain piece or portion of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements  thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes,  appurtenances and advantages thereunto belonging  or  in  anywise  appertaining,   situated in section 15,  T3S-R6E,  St . Helena Parish, Louisiana.”  (La. C.C. Article 694) ROBA Inc., was subrogated to all these rights (see the cash sale May 17, 1988 and February 25, 1992 deeds). 

Mr. Hall, you are hereby placed on notice that you are violating ROBA Inc.’s right of passage on the existing road, beginning with the purchase and sale in May 1988 and February 1992 and by refusing ROBA Inc.’s legal right to the use of the existing road, you have and continue to expose yourself to money damages for exercising Jim Crow Laws that were enacted in the 1920’s and 30’s but declared unlawful in 1964-68. 

ROBA Inc., is due access by law and title since the May 17, 1988 purchase, which was 4 years before the Courtney family sold the lake property to James B. Courtney on February 25, 1992 and all servitude was extinguished and subsequently sold   approximately 51 acres to ROBA Inc. (La CC. Article 765) Who owns the road that was included in each property sold?  Each buyer that bought property from James B. Courtney acquired the legal right of passage, to use the existing road for ingress and egress as a matter of law. (La. C.C. Article 689, 652, 694). “Ownership of the same thing by two or more persons is ownership indivision…a co-owner is entitled to the use of the thing held indivision according to its destination, but he cannot prevent another co-owner from making such use of it..” (La C.C. Article 797, 802). Mr. Hall, ROBA Inc., has the same right as everyone (including you) to the use of the existing road that runs from the lake south to north Highway 1047 and public policy dictates access. Give ROBA Inc., the same rights as all purchasers to access their property by law.

There is no issue of [right of use]; therefore, there exist no issue of prescription which was tolled by filing suit. (La. C.C. Articles:3462). Right of use and right of passage are not interchangeable (right of use is personal and right of passage is due by law for access). Right of use does not apply to owners of the property. 

“Ownership and the possession of a thing are distinct. Ownership exists independently of any exercise of it and may not be lost by nonuse.” (La C.C. Article 481 and 3448). The right of passage is due by law for property owners who have no access to a public road. (La. C.C. Articles: 650,689,705).  Lack of use is not a viable defense, as right of passage has no prescription.

                                                                                                                 

  Mr. Hall please see enclosed laws, documents, maps and other indicia of what applies to the facts 

of our property dispute. You must see and understand that COURTNEY AND HIS CO-

CONSPIRATORS MISREPRESENTED AND DECEIVED ALL OF US. How could you or 

any reasonable person believe that you and your white neighbors are the only ones with rights to 

a road that serves every property sold by the Courtney’s (see survey).      

       

According to the Attorney General’s Opinion, Idle Acres Lane IS NOT LEGALLY A PUBLIC ROAD, “La. R.S. 48:491 requires that, for private roads to become public roads, the governing authority must maintain the road for a period of three years and the private landowner must have constructive notice of that maintenance, a failure to meet one of the requirements necessary to reclassify a road would, in our opinion, represent a barrier to an existing private road becoming a public road.”

   

Click here to see all exhibits, deeds, surveys, and maps. 

Sincerely Your Neighbor,

Robert L. Lucien, Sr.

Cc: Mr. Mitchell Radecker

       Mr. Tony Noto & Family

       All parties of interest 

       File   

Certified Receipt no: 7008 1830 0004 1198 7243

Date mailed April 28, 2011