Douglas v. State

FOURNET, Justice.

The state is appealing from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff, Judith Hyams Douglas, in a suit instituted by her under Act No. 52 of 1944 wherein she was authorized “to file suit against the State of Louisiana through the Governor and State Treasurer upon a claim for the recovery of a cash bonus received by the State of Louisiana, allegedly in error, amounting to Twenty-Four Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-one and seventy-five one hundredths ($24,931.75) Dollars, for an award by the State Mineral Board on March 8, 1939, to the Standard Oil Company of Louisiana of an oil, gas…