State Ex Rel. Board of School Directors v. Brooklyn Cooperage Co.

This is an action to recover for the school board a sixteenth section in place, or, in the alternative, to collect the balance of the price of a sale of the section. The sale was made by the state to one John H.-Harmanson on the 7th of January, 1860. The suit was dismissed on an exception of no cause of action, and the relator, St. Landry parish school board, has appealed.

It is alleged in the petition that the sale to Harmanson, dated the 7th of January, 1860, was annulled by a decree Of the district court on the 14th of November, 1870, but that the decree was not recorded in the conveyance…