State v. Bowie Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of St. James; Philip H. Gilbert, Judge. Suit by the State of Louisiana against the Bowie Lumber Company in which J. C. Rives and others were called in warranty.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
The state sued to recover 640 acres of land alleged to be a sixteenth section, in place, in township 13 south, range 16 east, in the southeastern land district, and to recoyer $26,720.92 as the value of timber alleged to have been taken from the land by *583defendant. Defendant answered that there never was a sixteenth section in township 13 south, range 16 east, in the Southeastern land district, and alleged that the area of 640 acres which would form the sixteenth section if there were one in place in that township was embraced within a private land grant made on the 25th of June, 1765, by the…
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