Pierson v. Castell Land & Harbor Co.

The plaintiff claims to be the owner of 172,797.28 acres of land situated in the parish of Terrebonne, and by this suit seeks to annul and set aside a certain tax adjudication of said land to the state, whence the several defendants acquired, each for himself, by successive title, certain portions of the said land.

As all parties claim under a common author, the Louisiana Reclamation Land Company, it is unnecessary to refer to the chain of title prior to that of the common author.

The plaintiff acquired the land from E.C.L. Herwig on July 22, 1918, and Herwig acquired at a tax sale of date…