Pardee Co. v. Bodcaw Lumber Co.

This is a suit to test title to real estate under Act No. 38 of 1908.

*170Plaintiff, the Pardee Company, alleges that it is the owner of southwest quarter of northeast quarter and southeast quarter of northwest quarter of Section 24, Township 16 North, Range 9 West, situated in the parish of Bienville.

Plaintiff sets forth that it acquired the property on December 6, 1907, from Calvin Pardee, and that Calvin Pardee acquired it on June 16, 1890, by patent from the state of Louisiana, and that the land was granted to the state of Louisiana by the United States under the swamp land act of Congress of…