Culliver v. Garric
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL FROM TIIE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING. This case was before the court at a former term and a judgment of non-suit entered, because of the failure of the plaintiff to produce evidence of authority to the United States agent, (Capt.
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APPEAL FROM TIIE COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, THE JUDGE OF THE EIGHTH PRESIDING. This case was before the court at a former term and a judgment of non-suit entered, because of the failure of the plaintiff to produce evidence of authority to the United States agent, (Capt. T. S. Rogers,) from the war department, to convey title to the lot of ground in question. 11 Louisiana Reports, 88. On the return of the cause to the District Court, it was again tried before the court and a jury. The plaintiff was only able to trace Capt. Roger’s authority to the…
1Opinion of the CourtMartin, J.
This case was before us in May term, 1837, and remanded for a new trial. The defendant has had a verdict and judgment, from which the plaintiff is appellant. 11 L. R., 88.
The facts of the case are plainly stated in our former opinion; in which, judgment as in case of non-suit, was *138given, because the plaintiff had failed to produce the authority of the officer under whose conveyance he claimed. He has not been more successful after the return of the case to the District Court. The facts of the case show that he obtained the land by a contract of exchange, legal evidence of which he failed to…
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