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STATE v. WARD

No. 4502.

314 So.2d 383 (1975)

STATE of Louisiana, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. David S. WARD et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 18, 1975.

Writ Refused September 25, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Liskow & Lewis, by William M. Meyers, New Orleans, Broussard, Broussard & Moresi by Marcus A. Broussard, Jr., Abbeville, Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre by J. Mort Walker, Jr., and Ernest A. Carrere, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Ernest R. Eldred, Baton Rouge, and J. Nolan Sandoz, Abbeville, and William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Robert J. A. Williams, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before FRUGE, HOOD, and DOMENGEAUX, JJ.

FRUGE, Judge.

This case involves a dispute over ownership of approximately 15,000 acres of land on the coast of Vermilion Bay in Vermilion Parish known as the State Wildlife Refuge. The action was instituted by the State of Louisiana in 1970 as a possessory action against the heirs of Edward Avery McIlhenny and Charles Willis Ward and certain other corporate defendants.1 The Ward-McIlhenny heirs converted the action into a petitory action...

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