Orillion v. Slack
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the District Court of Iberville, Deblieux, J. Two suits, commenced by the plaintiffs against Slack, were consolidated in the lower court, and judgment rendered therein “in favor of the plaintiffs, for $14.73 damages, as the difference between the value of the land composing the back tract, or second concession of lots Nos. 26, 27 and 28, and the price paid therefor to the United.States by the defendant,” and for the possession “of the one half arpent front, with…
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Appeal from the District Court of Iberville, Deblieux, J. Two suits, commenced by the plaintiffs against Slack, were consolidated in the lower court, and judgment rendered therein “in favor of the plaintiffs, for $14.73 damages, as the difference between the value of the land composing the back tract, or second concession of lots Nos. 26, 27 and 28, and the price paid therefor to the United.States by the defendant,” and for the possession “of the one half arpent front, with a depth of forty, in possession of the defendant, and shown to be a part of lot No. 26.” The re-conventional demand of…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The plaintiffs represent in their first petition (No. 1757,) that they are the owners of a plantation on the bayou Grosse Tete, composed of numbers 26, 27, and 28, about fifteen arpens front, and containing 491J acres, which lots were duly sold in 1826, and patented by the United States to Wilson and Sykes, from whom they derive title. That about the year 1830, the Surveyor General located a pretended claim of Reboul and Franchebois for fifty acres front on the bayou instead of arpens, and that, in that survey, the former official one under which the patents had been issued, was overlooked or…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Slack v. OrillionSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1838