Ascension Red Cypress Co. v. New River Drainage Dist.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Api>eal from Twenty-Seventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Ascension; Philip H. Gilbert, Judge. Action by the Ascension Red Cypress Com • pany, Limited, against the New River Drainage District. Judgment for plaintiff,' and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
On April 12, 1916, the plaintiff and the defendant entered into “a contract and agreement of sale” by the terms of which plaintiff company sold to defendant district a right of way 65 feet in width across certain described lands, being a strip 32y2 feet on either side of the center of the proposed canal- to be constructed by the said district.
*765As a consideration for said right of way, said district obligated itself to deliver to said company all merchantable timber of cypress and hard wood of certain dimensions that may be cut off said right of way by the contractors of said district to the…
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