Atchafalaya Land Co. v. F. B. Williams Cypress Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP LOUISIANA. Error to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Louisiana reversing a judgment in favor of the present plaintiffs in error in a suit to have the Land Company’s title adjudged superior and the Cypress Company’s patents annulled. The grant by the State to the Board of Commissioners was a grant in praesenti.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OP THE STATE OP LOUISIANA. Error to a judgment of the Supreme Court of Louisiana reversing a judgment in favor of the present plaintiffs in error in a suit to have the Land Company’s title adjudged superior and the Cypress Company’s patents annulled. The grant by the State to the Board of Commissioners was a grant in praesenti. The terms of this grant further left it entirely at the option of the grantee when to require a title deed to be executed to it. Decisions of the State Supreme Court interpreting this very contract in two cases as withdrawing the lands from…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Suit by the Atchafalaya Land Company to have declared-nuil and void certain patents issued by the Register of the State Land Office of Louisiana to a partnership composed of John N. Pharr and Frank B. Williams, of which the F. B. Williams .Cypress Company became grantee May 23, 1903; and that the lands of the patents be adjudged to have been included in the grant of the State to the Board of Commissioners of'the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District anterior to the patent to Pharr arid Williams, and by the Board of Commissioners transferred to Edward Wisner and J. M. Dresser, under a contract…
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