CROSS LAKE SHOOTING AND FISHING CLUB v. STATE

No. 46.

224 U.S. 632 (1912)

CROSS LAKE SHOOTING AND FISHING CLUB v. STATE OF LOUISIANA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 13, 1912.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edgar H. Farrar, with whom Mr. John D. Wilkinson was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. W.P. Hall, with whom Mr. Walter Guion, Attorney General of the State of Louisiana, was on the brief, for defendant in error.


MR. JUSTICE VAN DEVANTER delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit by the State of Louisiana against the Cross Lake Shooting and Fishing Club to recover about 11,000 acres of land, in the Parish of Caddo in that State, of which the fishing club was in possession, and to which it was asserting title, under a sale and deed made to its remote grantors by the Board of Commissioners of the Caddo Levee District. Although...

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