Levy v. Gause
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Sixth Judicial District Court, Parish of St. Tammany; Ered D. King, Judge. Action by Leopold Levy against George H. Gause and another. From a judgment for plaintiff for a part of the relief sought, plaintiff appeals, and defendant Gause joins in the appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtLand, J.
This is a petitory action to recover a tract of land situated in the parish of St. Tammany, known as the “De La Gautrais Grant,” and also as section 38, in the Greensburg land district, containing 1,230 acres.
Plaintiff alleges title from Marie Louise de la Gautrais, to whom the United States issued a patent in February, 1873. Plaintiff further alleged that defendants bad illegally and wrongfully taken possession of said tract of land within five years preceding the date of the institution of his suit under some pretended title, unknown to plaintiff, but invalid and null because it did not…
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