Sapp v. Frazier
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Second Judicial District Court for the Parish-of Webster. Watkins, J.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Blaxoiiard, J.
Plaintiff, in 1896, acquired by purchase certain tracts of land fronting on Lake Bistineau, aggregating about 220 acres.
The authors of his title had acquired the land from the United States. It is “hill” land, or “uplands.”
When, many years ago, the government surveyors ran the lines of the townships and sectionized the lands of that region of country, the tracts of land in question formed fractional sections, or parts of fractional sections.
What necessitated these fractional sections was the existence of the lake and its omission from the…
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