Chadwick v. Gulf States Land & Improvement Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. This was a petitory action brought by P. EL. Chadwick against the Gulf States Land & Improvement Company to recover lands and the rents thereon. The circuit court rendered judgment for defendant, and the plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
BO ARM AN, District Judge.
This is a petitory action brought in the circuit court for the Eastern district of Louisiana for the recovery of possession and ownership of certain lands, worth $2,-100, and for rents thereon, and for writs of sequestration. Defendant, setting up title and possession in itself, denies all the allegations of plaintiff’s petition, and, further answering, alleges that it is the true and lawful owner of the property described in plaintiff’s petition; that it acquired said property from Domingo Negrotto, Jr., on the 10th of May, 1890, by an act of sale passed before M.…
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