BOARD OF COM'RS FOR BURAS LEVEE DIST. v. Cockrell

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

Under the jurisdiction given by the Act of June 14, 1934, Jud.Code, § 274d, 28 U. S.C.A. § 400, the appellee Ernest Cockrell obtained in the District Court a declaratory decree against the Board of Commissioners of Buras Levee District, and against Parish of Plaquemines as their universal successor, that a former decree rendered by the Supreme Court of Louisiana in a suit to which Cockrell and the board were parties is a complete and conclusive bar to any claim by the Levee District of title to or interest in any portion of the land except section 16) in three named…