Louisiana, A. & M. R. Co. v. Board of Levee Com'rs
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of tlie United States for tlie West ern District of Louisiana. The following statement is reprinted, from appellee’s brief: The appellee, the Board of Levee Commissioners of the Tensas Basin Levee District (whom we will hereafter designate as the “Levee Board”), brought suit in the district court of Richland parish, La., against the Louisiana, Arkansas & Missouri Railroad Company (which we will hereafter designate as the “Railroad Company”), to…
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of tlie United States for tlie West ern District of Louisiana. The following statement is reprinted, from appellee’s brief: The appellee, the Board of Levee Commissioners of the Tensas Basin Levee District (whom we will hereafter designate as the “Levee Board”), brought suit in the district court of Richland parish, La., against the Louisiana, Arkansas & Missouri Railroad Company (which we will hereafter designate as the “Railroad Company”), to annul certain contracts and conveyances made by the Levee Board to tlie Railroad Company, of some 700,000 acres of land…
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit Judge.
The statement of this case is a somewhat lengthy matter, and, as we find in the first 27 pages of the brief submitted by Messrs. Boatner & Hudson, of counsel for the appellee, a full and fair statement, we adopt the same without reproducing it iu this opinion.
It is conceded that as all the contracts involved in this suit were entered into in the state of Louisiana, and, as the lands involved are wholly situated in the same state, the law of Louisiana governs in the de termina Lion of the nature and validity of the contracts, and as to the relief which can be given by the…
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