Penn v. Rodriguez
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Third Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Mary; Albert Campbell Allen, Judge. Action by Henry Penn, Jr., against J. Beauregard Rodriguez. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvosty, J.
In last analysis the issue presented by the formidable record and voluminous briefs in this case resolves itself into whether, because of a mere clerical error in a description by subdivisions according to the United States surveys, the *101plaintiff shall be decreed to be the owner of a tract of land which he sold more than 34 ■years ago, to which he has never laid claim ■ since then, and of which his vendee and the assigns 'of his vendee have ever since then supposed themselves to be the undoubted owners.
•• The land in question is the undivided half of the S. W. % of section 18, T. 14, R. 9,…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Bryan v. WisnerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1892
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- Sentell v. RandolphSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1899
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