State ex rel. Board of Com'rs v. Grace
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; H. F. Brunot, Judge. Proceedings by the State, on relation of the Board of Commissioners of the Caddo Levee District and others, against Ered J. Grace, Register of State Land Office, and others.
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Appeal from Twenty-Second Judicial District Court, Parish of East Baton Rouge; H. F. Brunot, Judge. Proceedings by the State, on relation of the Board of Commissioners of the Caddo Levee District and others, against Ered J. Grace, Register of State Land Office, and others. From a judgment making absolute a writ of mandamus commanding the Register of the Land Office and defendant State Auditor to cancel a patent held by defendant Douglas and to issue a certificate of conveyance to the Board of Commissioners of Cad-do Levee District, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
Defendants appeal from a judgment making absolute a writ of mandamus, commanding the register of the land office and the State Auditor to cancel a land patent held by the codefendant Mrs. Judith Hyams Douglas, and to issue a certificate of conveyance to the board of commissioners of the Caddo levee district.
The land in contest, having an area of 80 acres, was conveyed to the state as swamp land, by the acts of Congress of March 2, 1849 (9 Stat. 352, c. 87) and of September 28, 1850 (9 Stat. 519, c. 84 [U. S. Comp. St. §§ 4958-4960]). And it was selected and approved to the state in 1854; that…
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