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JEEMS BAYOU FISHING & HUNTING CLUB v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 119 and 137.

260 U.S. 561 (1923)

JEEMS BAYOU FISHING & HUNTING CLUB ET AL v. UNITED STATES. UNITED STATES v. JEEMS BAYOU HUNTING & FISHING CLUB ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 2, 1923.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Harry T. Klein and Mr. Hampden Story, with whom Mr. Elias Goldstein and Mr. H.C. Walker were on the brief, for Jeems Bayou Fishing & Hunting Club et al.

Mr. Assistant Attorney General Riter, with whom Mr. Solicitor General Beck was on the brief, for the United States.

MR. JUSTICE SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

The United States brought suit in equity in the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Louisiana, against the defendants (appellants and cross appellees here) to have its title to 85.22 acres of land in the Parish of Caddo, Louisiana, confirmed, possession restored, assertion of claims thereto by defendants enjoined, and an accounting had for the value of oil removed therefrom by the...

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