ISELIN v. LA COSTE

No. 11165.

147 F.2d 791 (1945)

ISELIN et al. v. LA COSTE.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 14, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred G. Hudson and Murray Hudson, both of Monroe, La., and L. Bryan Dabney, of Vicksburg, Miss., for appellants.

J. D. Thames, of Vicksburg, Miss., and F. C. Claiborne, of New Roads, La., for appellee.

Before McCORD, WALLER, and LEE, Circuit Judges.


WALLER, Circuit Judge.

In the spring of 1943 the Plaintiffs, alleging themselves to be citizens of Indiana, sued the Defendant as a citizen of Louisiana in the Federal Court of the Southern District of Mississippi, seeking a declaration that they were the owners of a "tract of land in Warren County, State of Mississippi, known as `Diamond Point', together with the accretions thereto," of a value in excess of $3,000. The Plaintiffs then alleged that the lands, six...

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