Schultz v. Ryan
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Certiorari to Court of Appeal, Parish of Orleans. Action by Joseph A. Schultz against John F. Ryan. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtProyostx, J.
The land in controversy is timber land. It has never been in anybody’s possession, and until 1904 no title to it had been recorded in the parish of Livingston, where it is situated.
Plaintiff holds the title of Thomas Green Davidson, the patentee, while defendant claims under a tax sale made in 1904 upon an assessment to “unknown owner.”
The purchaser at this tax sale was Thomas H. Jones. He had the year before, 1903, bought, jointly with Robert J. Robertson, the rights of Adeline Cotton, erroneously supposing her to have inherited a one-third interest in the property from her mother, Martha…
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- Praegner v. Kinnebrew & RatcliffSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1924
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