State ex rel. Cayard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nicholls, O. J.

Relators pray this court to order their release and 'discharge from the custody of the sheriff of the parish of Vermillion and invoke at our hands the granting of a writ of habeas corpus and all orders necessary in the premises, and general relief.

This prayer is based upon allegations that they had each of them entered on the 1st of March, 1898, under the provisions of the Act of "Congress, approved May 20th, 1882, commonly known as the “Homestead Act,” certain tracts of land, which they described. That the land embraced in their…