United States v. Hunsicker

- CALL, District Judge.

The same question is presented for decision in each of these cases, which were argued together by counsel for the respective parties, and will be treated together in this opinion. The facts may be stated as follows:

August 4, 1919, decrees were entered by the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, recognizing the United States as the owner of certain tracts of land in Caddo parish, and condemning the defendants to pay the United States certain sums of money, with interest, for oil taken from the lands. Each decree contained the following:

“That the said…