Lauve v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
. Appeal from Twenty-First Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberville; Edward Blount Talbot, Judge. Action by Mrs. Charles O. Lauve and others against Adolph Wilson. Ftom a judgment for defendant, plaintiffs appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement.
MONROE, J.
This is a petitory action for the recovery of a tract of land in the parish of Iberville. Plaintiff traces title to a sale made August 30, 1856, by Joseph H. Balch, treasurer of the parish of Iberville, to Jas. H. Johnston, and purporting to have been made under the authority of “An act to reorganize the public schools in the state of Louisiana,” approved April 2S, 1853 (Act No. 250, p. 213, of 1853); the land in question being described as “school section 16 in township seven and eight, containing two hundred and twenty-six acres, more or less, as per survey thereof, made…
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