State ex rel. Board of Com'rs of Atchafalaya Basin Levee Dist. v. Capdeville
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; H. F. Brunot, Judge. Mandamus by the State, on the relation of the Board of Commissioners of the Atchafa-laya Basin Levee District, against Paul Capdeville, State Auditor, and Fred J. Gra-cer, Register State Land Office, in which proceeding the Atehafalaya Land Company intervened. From judgment for the defendants, plaintiffs and the intervener land company appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtDawkins, J.
The board of commissioners of the Atehafalaya Basin levee district seek by mandamus to compel the auditor and register of the state land office to execute in favor of plaintiff board deed or deeds to certain property situated within the boundaries of the said levee district, and claimed by it under the provisions of section 11 of Act No. 97 of 1890, by which act the said levee district was created and the said board was made a corporation or body politic, Plaintiff alleges that the property in- controversy (consisting of the beds of Little Lake Long, Lake Rond, Lake Dauterive, and Lake Fausse…
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