Board of Levee Com'rs of Tensas Basin Levee Dist. v. Tensas Delta Land Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana; Aleck Boarman, Judge. Suit in equity by the Board of Levee Commissioners of the Tensas Basin Levee District against the Tensas Delta Land Company, Limited. Decree for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
SHELBY, Circuit Judge.
The main purpose of the bill in this case is to annul for fraud a sale of more than 800,000 acres of land made in November, 1898, by the plaintiff (appellant here), a corporation organized under the laws of Louisiana, for the sum of $130,000, to the defendant, an incorporated limited liability partnership organized under the laws of the state of Michigan, the members of which partnership are shown by the record to be citizens of other states than the state of Louisiana.
The averments show that there was gross fraud connected with the ' sale, which did not come to the…
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