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RECTANGLE RANCHE CO. v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

No. 8701.

96 F.2d 825 (1938)

RECTANGLE RANCHE CO. v. BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR BURAS LEVEE DIST.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 19, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude L. Johnson, of New Orleans, La., for appellant.

A. Giffen Levy and L. H. Perez, both of New Orleans, La., for appellee.

Before FOSTER, SIBLEY, and HUTCHESON, Circuit Judges.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

By a petition filed January 25, 1936, and exhibiting the requisite diversity and amount, plaintiff, in support of its claim of title to the lands described in its bill, invoked the federal equity jurisdiction.

The claim was that under the provisions of Act No. 18 of 1894 of the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana the described lands had inured to the defendant board, and that plaintiff was the equitable owner of them by virtue...

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