Williams v. Landry
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Twentieth District Court, Parish of’Assumption Guión, J. Plaintiff alleging himself to be the owner of lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of section 24, in township No. thirteen (13), south of range No. 12 East, west of the Mississippi river on the western shore of Lake Verrett, in the parish of Assumption, said lots constituting all that there is of said section, and averring that Valere Landry had illegally entered as a trespasser upon the same, claiming it as…
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APPEAL from the Twentieth District Court, Parish of’Assumption Guión, J. Plaintiff alleging himself to be the owner of lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of section 24, in township No. thirteen (13), south of range No. 12 East, west of the Mississippi river on the western shore of Lake Verrett, in the parish of Assumption, said lots constituting all that there is of said section, and averring that Valere Landry had illegally entered as a trespasser upon the same, claiming it as his property under a tax adjudication made to him on July 17, 1886, for taxes assessed in the name of James Steck or Dix…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
Plaintiff and defendant both concede that the land in litigation once belonged to James Dick, under patents for the same issued to him. Plaintiff claims that Dick’s title was vested in him through the various conveyances set out in his pleadings, while defendant maintains that Dick continued in the ownership of the property up to 1886, when he was divested of ownership by a tax sale made under an assessment of taxes on the property in the name of James Dix or Steck, and that at that sale he became the legal owner of the land by…
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