Police Jury v. Terrebonne Land Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twentieth Judicial District Court, Parish of Lafourche; Whitmell P. Martin, Judge. Actions by the Police Jury of the Parish of Lafourche and others against the Terrebonne Land Company, Limited, and others, and against the South Louisiana Land Company and others. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
■LAND, J.
These suits were instituted under Act No. 38 of 1908, providing a form of action to establish title to real estate, where neither of the claimants of record are in actual possession of the land in dispute.
Plaintiffs assert title to many thousands of acres of swamp land by virtue of a grant from the state of Louisiana to the police juries of the parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne, evidenced by Act No. 106 of 1878.
Defendants assert title from the state of Louisiana through the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District created by Act No. 97 of 1890.
Defendants set up a number of exceptions,…
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