Leonard v. Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. This was an action of ejectment brought, in 1896, by the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad Company in the First Judicial District Court, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, against certain possessors, for whom Smith, Leonard and others were substituted as defendants, to recover 178.80 acres of land in that parish less 35.18 acres theretofore recovered by Smith and others in another action.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA. This was an action of ejectment brought, in 1896, by the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Pacific Railroad Company in the First Judicial District Court, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, against certain possessors, for whom Smith, Leonard and others were substituted as defendants, to recover 178.80 acres of land in that parish less 35.18 acres theretofore recovered by Smith and others in another action. Defendants, both by plea and answer, -set up that they, being either the heirs of W. W. Smith, or parties privy, brought suit in the Circuit Court of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
We assume from the errors assigned; and no other grounds are indicated by the record, that Federal questions in two aspects are relied on to justify this writ of error.
First. The construction and application of the acts of Congress of 1849, 1850 and 1856, taken with other acts referred to.
But as to this it should be pointed out in the first place that the state court adjudged the Smith title invalid on' the independent ground, among others, of non-compliance with an act of the general assembly of Louisiana; and, in the second place, that the Federal question thus suggested had been so…
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