State v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Biehardson, J. PPEAL from the Fifth District Court, Parish of Ouachita. X. The act of June 8, 1856, was in legal effect a deed in trust to the State of Louisiana for the purposes and on the conditions therein expressed, 2. The Legislature of the State, by act approved March 11,1857, accepted the trust on the terms and conditions imposed. 3. By the terms of the trust the State could dispose of the property only on con ditionsprecedent, 21 Wall. 59; 92XT.
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Biehardson, J. PPEAL from the Fifth District Court, Parish of Ouachita. X. The act of June 8, 1856, was in legal effect a deed in trust to the State of Louisiana for the purposes and on the conditions therein expressed, 2. The Legislature of the State, by act approved March 11,1857, accepted the trust on the terms and conditions imposed. 3. By the terms of the trust the State could dispose of the property only on con ditionsprecedent, 21 Wall. 59; 92XT. S. 57. 4. The grant to the State being by public statute, all persons are charged with notice of the powers conferred by it and with the…
1Opinion of the Court
*987The opinion of the court was delivered by
Nicholls, O. J.
On the 3d day of June, 1856, the government of the United States, by act approved that day, granted certain lands therein referred to within specified limits, to the State of Louisiana for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad from the Texas line, in the State of Louisiana, west of the town of Greenwood, via Greenwood, Shreveport and Monroe to a point on the Mississippi river, provided that said lands should be exclusively applied in the construction of said road, and should be disposed of only as the work progressed,…
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