Levy v. Bonfouca Hunting Club

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by Onesime Faciané from a judgment of the lower court ordering him to specifically perform his contract to purchase a tract of 1405.78 acres in St. Tammany Parish, bid in by him at public auction invoked by L. V. Cooley, Jr., as the receiver of the Bonfouca Hunting Club.

According to the facts revealed by the record it appears that about the year 1883 some 141 persons, each contributing amounts ranging from 50(1 to $10, purchased from the State of Louisiana swamp land that was to be used by them for fishing and hunting purposes, forming what is known as…