Keller v. Loflin

The Acts of 1852, page 168, section 3d, and of 1853, page 22, section 1, gave to the Register of the State Land Office jurisdiction to decide between conflicting claims of preference right to enter lands in the State Land Office. .

The Act of 1853, also gave the right to the claimant aggrieved by the decision of the Register to appeal from the same, within six months, to the District Court of the parish in which the land is situated.

In conformity to those statutes the Register of the State Land Office took cognizance of a dispute between the parties to this suit, in relation to the right to…