The Progress., 1896-11-14
GUN CLUB LOSES.
Judge Land Says the Prop rty Be-
longs To Uucle Sam.

I
For some months, in different
forms, the matter Of the Gun Club
aud "Lake lands" hav- been before
the public, on account of the pur-
chase by this organization of large
area of land from the C4ddo Levee
Board. Before the Courts too this
matter in some manner, shape or
form has been no for disputatlon Of
title, etc, until the public has become
qnite we'll acquainted with the Gun
, Club, all Of which The PRoaREss re-
grets to cay. has caused some ill feel
Tags.
The question of ownership, how
| ever. as regards the title of the Gnn
Club, has now been disposed OF, I'M
, less an appeal he taken, because
Judge Laud has decided that the
Gun Club has no title at all.
( This was brought ont IN suit by this
? cluD against MIR. Il. L Sr.Dgfellow
? for cnttiug timber and damages for
B trespasses, etc Following is the de-
cisiOn:
Cross Lake Shooting and Fishing
y, Club VS. T. l.. Striugfellow, No. 1926,
- in First Judicial District of Louisiana:
Il Plaintiff .ues defendant for $275.
n the alleged value Of timber unlawful
Iy removed by him from sec. %. 1 Is
% % 1421, during the months Vi Ocl-
"a ober aud November 1895, and May
ID and Juue 1895. Plaintiff alleges that
said lands are eitua,ed in that section
:. of the parish known rs Gross Lake"
~ and belong to aud are the property
- of petitioner, and that said defendant
acted knowingly aud wilfully in the
= premises.
i i / Defendant in his original answer
he pleaded the general issue aud the pre-
ed scription of one year.
$50 La All amended answer defend ant
specially denies the alleged owner
ship of plaintiff aud specially aver
90. that the land in question belongs t.
MI the public domain of the United Sta
tes.
'eo On the trial the plaintiff offered th
:" following acts of sale in evidence, vi
'oo 1.-Shreveport Gun Club and Eli
ders ct al. to intitf-September L
1896 recorded September H. 1895
avs conveying 1000 acres, more or les
hon being all tue lands acquired by ga
Id vendors from the Caddo Levee Boar
This sale IS made without. Warrant
and with such title as they received
TOO Nv, B. Jacobs ct al. to Shrev
the Gau Club, cate August %, 1895.
ilzA corded same ,dy-8without guara
tee of title aud onlySsuch ss they r
,.eiyed from the Caddo Levee Board
-. 3-Caddo Levee Board to Jaco
~ ct al, date August 20, 1885, record
,'n August ~, 1895. 1T being the
tension to sell herein all the land
longing to or cIaimAd by the Lev
,,,ar Board. west of the line dividing s.
onId tons 33 and "a, 10 IA and east
ons. the line dividing ranges ID and
and embraced in Gross Lake as sho
rail- bv traverse lines thereof-all situa
,eets, in the parish of Caddo, state OF l.
will lsiaua and aggregating ll,OUO &C
,min' more or less." The price WAS 81,
plaiutiff did not offer any evlde
showing any conveyance from
SONG state, of louisiana to the La
i"'' Board-but the defendant filed
> evidence u "descriptive liSt M swa
oue ', and overlooked lands situated in
'n'''' parish of 3Caddo, transferred by
Louisiana state land office to the I
ntiful do levee district by virtue OF act
i've L. "a, approved July 6, 1892"
In thisIist we find under the. /
Of township Is, north nse IA =
ias' northwest district, the word "nins
co"i' The certificate bears date OF !
WINE II. 1894, and is to the effect tha
lio' "e list embraces all the swAmps
overtlowe lands belonging to
serves state If Louisiana, within the II
aiming of the parish IF Caddu, Ms show
laadar thu record, vi this Office and
"a. cludes by transfer OF the same
Ieyse district as provided by ACT
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