Jeems Bayou Fishing & Hunting Club v. United States

The United States brought suit, in equity in the District 'Court of the United States for the'Western Distriet of Louisiana, against the defendants (appellants and cross ap-pellees here) to have its title, to-85.22 acres of land in the Parish of Caddo-, Louisiana, confirmed, possession restored, assertion of claims thereto by defendants enjoined, and an accounting had for the value of oil removed therefrom by the defendants, or any of them.

That court, upon the report of a master, entered a decree for the plaintiff and awarded damages for the value of the oil removed, after deducting the cost…