PLAQUEMINES TROPICAL FRUIT COMPANY v. HENDERSON

No. 204.

170 U.S. 511 (1898)

PLAQUEMINES TROPICAL FRUIT COMPANY v. HENDERSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 2, 1898.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Duane E. Fox for appellant. Mr. J. Ward Gurley was on his brief.

Mr. Victor Leovy for appellees. Mr. Henry J. Leovy, Mr. Joseph Paxton Blair and Mr. Alexander Porter Morse were on his brief.


MR. JUSTICE HARLAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was commenced February 11, 1895, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana by the Plaquemines Tropical Fruit Company, a New Jersey corporation, against the defendants in error William Henderson and Henry J. Leovy, citizens of Louisiana.

It is, in effect, a suit to quiet the title of the plaintiff to certain lands in the Parish of Plaquemines in the State...

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