State v. Louisiana Cypress Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Eighth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. John the Baptist; John E. Eleury, Judge. Action by the State of Louisiana against the Louisiana Cypress Lumber Company. Exceptions of no cause of action, want of authority of the district attorney and special attorneys to bring the suit, and of estoppel, sustained, and suit dismissed, and the State appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, C. J.
The state appears herein as plaintiff, represented by the district attorney for the Twenty-Eighth judicial district, and by Messrs. Edrington & Edrington, specially employed by the school board to act in conjunction with the said district attorney. The claim set up is for $105,000, as the value, in its manufactured state, of cypress timber alleged to have been cut and removed by defendant upon and from the sixteenth section in township 13 south, range 18 east, west of the Mississippi river, Southeast district of Louisiana, which township lies partly in the parish of St. James and partly in…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- United States v. KirkpatrickSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- Union School Township v. National BankIndiana Supreme Court · 1885
- State ex rel. Lott v. BrewerSupreme Court of Alabama · 1879
- State v. F. B. Williams Cypress Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1912
- Slattery v. HeilperinSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1902
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- Roberts v. Davis Bros. Lumber Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1933
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