Darby's Heirs v. Emmer
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Nineteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberia; James Simon, Judge. Action by the heirs of Coralie Darby against Albert G. Emmer. Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Statement.
MONROE, J.
The contestee prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of the district court affirming an adverse ruling made by the Register of the State Land Office In a *685contest concerning his and the contestants’ rights in the matter of the purchase from the state of a certain tract of land in the parish of Iberia. The facts presented by the record, so far as they need be stated, are as follows: In 1852 Louis St. Marc Darby acquired from J. O. Segura a large body of land described as “comprising that whole space and extent of land owned by vendor in the Grand Marais, contiguous to Lake…
2Cited by1 opinion
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