Atchafalaya Land Co. v. F. B. Williams Cypress Co.
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Nineteenth. Judicial District Court, Parish of Iberia; James Simon, Judge. Action by the Atchafalaya Land Company against the F. B. Williams Cypress Company and others, in which the Board of Commissioners of the Atchafalaya Basin Levee District and another intervened. Judgment for plaintiff and interveners, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niell, J.
This is an action to annul twelve land patents issued to Pharr & Williams, from whom the defendant F. B. Williams Cypress Company derived title, for several tracts of swamp land in the parishes of.Iberia and St. Martin, and to have the lands decreed subject to transfer by the state to the board of commissioners of the Atcha-falaya Basin levee district, under the statute creating the levee district.
Plaintiff claims that it is the right and duty of the board of commissioners of the levee district to demand, and the duty of the state auditor and the register of the state land office to grant, a…
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