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· 2/1/1915

Grant Timber & Manufacturing Co. v. Gray

Citations

  • 236 U.S. 133
  • 35 S. Ct. 279
  • 59 L. Ed. 501
  • 1915 U.S. LEXIS 1787

Syllabus

<p>A State may, without violating the Fourteenth Amendment, protect established possession of property against disturbance by anything other than process of law.</p> <p>Article 55, Code of Practice of Louisiana, providing that one sued in a possessory action cannot bring a petitory action until after judg-. ment shall have been rendered in the possessory action, and, in case he shall have been condemned, until he shall have satisfied the judgment given against him, is not unconstitutional under the due process provision of the Fourteenth Amendment.</p>

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  • upholding a Louisiana statute which prohibited the defendant in a possessory suit from bringing an action to try title until after the judgment was rendered and satisfied in the. possessory action

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Judges: Holmes

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