Cole v. Thompson
Supreme Court of Louisiana
^PPEAL from tlie First District Court, Parish of Caddo. Taylor, 1. The Act of March 3d, 1857, confhmed to the several States theip selections of swamp lands, which had then been reported to the commissioner of the general land office, so far as the lands were then “vacant and unappropriated, and not interfered with by an actual settlement ” under existing laws.
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^PPEAL from tlie First District Court, Parish of Caddo. Taylor, 1. The Act of March 3d, 1857, confhmed to the several States theip selections of swamp lands, which had then been reported to the commissioner of the general land office, so far as the lands were then “vacant and unappropriated, and not interfered with by an actual settlement ” under existing laws. U. S. R. S. 2484. 2. The selections so confirmed could not be set aside, nor could titles to any of the land which they embraced, unless it came within the exceptions mentioned in that act, be thereafter conveyed by the United States…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Todd, J.
This case presents a controversy between plaintiff and defendant respecting the land described in the petition as the N. E. J Section 1, T. 20, K. 15, situated in the Parish of Caddo.
Both parties claim to have acquired it from the State, it being swamp *1028land and embraced in the donations of swamp lands made to the State by the United States under sundry Acts of Congress.
The plaintiff claims under an entry made on the 17th of March, 1862, by Chesley C. D. Williams, and several mesne conveyances from him.
The defendant claims under an entry made in…
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