Dowdell v. Orphans' Home Soc.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Albert Campbell Allen, Judge. Actions by John T. Dowdell against the-Orphans’ Home Society and the Freedman’s.
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Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Albert Campbell Allen, Judge. Actions by John T. Dowdell against the-Orphans’ Home Society and the Freedman’s. Aid & Southern Education Society, by the Orphans’ Home Society and Freedman’s Aid & Southern Education Society against John T. Dowdell, Fannie E. Harding, intervener,, and by the Orphans’ Home Society and Freedman’s Aid & Southern Education Society against John T. Dowdell, E. B. Spiller, intervener. The actions were consolidated, and from the judgment the succession of Dowdell appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBreaux, C. J.
The first suit was brought for an injunction by John T. Dowdell, to prevent the “Orphans’ Home” and the “Freedman’s Aid Society” from interfering with him whilst at work in swamp lands making railroad ties, which he averred were owned by his *51lessors, under whom he claimed, at the inception of the suit. Hereafter, for the sake of some brevity, we will refer to the defendants in injunction suit No. 10,581 as the “Orphans’ Home.”
Plaintiff averred that the property in question consisted of a concession by the government to John D. St. Mare Darby, and that it contained about 714 acres, lying in…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State ex rel. Dowdell v. AllenSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1901
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