ATCHAFALAYA LAND CO. v. F.B. WILLIAMS CYPRESS CO.

No. 106.

258 U.S. 190 (1922)

ATCHAFALAYA LAND COMPANY, LIMITED, ET AL. v. F.B. WILLIAMS CYPRESS COMPANY, LIMITED.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 13, 1922.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Walter J. Burke, with whom Mr. Ventress J. Smith, Mr. F. Ernest Delahoussaye, Mr. Charles F. Consaul and Mr. Jacob H. Morrison were on the briefs, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Charles F. Borah, Mr. J. Blanc Monroe and Mr. Monte M. Lemann, for defendant in error, submitted.


MR. JUSTICE McKENNA delivered the opinion of the court.

Suit by the Atchafalaya Land Company to have declared null and void certain patents issued by the Register of the State Land Office of Louisiana to a partnership composed of John N. Pharr and Frank B. Williams, of which the F.B. Williams Cypress Company became grantee May 23, 1903; and that the lands of the patents be adjudged to have been included in the grant of the...

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