Welch v. Forest Lumber Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Allen; Jerry Cline, Judge. Suit by Mrs. Ludonia Welch and others against the Forest Lumber Company. From •a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtOverton, J.
This suit was instituted to recover a tract of land, forming a part of defendant’s mill site, in the parish of Allen.
It appears that Thomas B. Welch, the husband of Mrs. Ludonia Welch, one of' the plaintiffs herein, and father and grandfather of the remaining plaintiffs, entered as a homestead 160 acres of land. The land in contest herein formed a part of that entry. All of the land included in the entry was patented to the New Orleans Pacific Railway Company on January 15, 1891. Welch contested the claim of that company, and on May 3, 1895, the contest was decided in his favor, and demand…
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