State v. Hackley, Hume & Joyce
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Twenty-Fifth Judicial District Court, Parish of Tangipahoa; Clay Elliott, Judge. Action by the State against Hackley, 1-Iume & Joyce. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion
On Rehearing.
PROVO STY, J.
Our former decree in this case was set aside, and a rehearing granted. The case is here on exceptions of want of tender and no cause of action. The lower court overruled the exception of want of tender, and maintained that of no cause of action, and dismissed the suit.
The state sues to recover certain lands which, she alleges, the register of her land office was induced by the misrepresentations, deception, and fraud of the entrymen and patentees to sell at 25 cents per acre, as lands subject to regular tidal overflow, when, in point of fact, the lands were not of…
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- Maxwell Land-Grant CaseSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Marquez v. FrisbieSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
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