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CHARRIER v. BELL

Civ. A. No. 81-1010.

547 F.Supp. 580 (1982)

Leonard CHARRIER v. Louise Lessley BELL, Julia Mae Montfort, James T. Falkenheiner, Williard I. Lessley, and Louise Jensen and State of Louisiana, Louisiana Secretary of Culture Recreation and Tourism, and the Louisiana Archaeological Survey and Antiquities Commission, and Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Indians.

United States District Court, M. D. Louisiana.

September 9, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Arthur Smith. III, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff.

John S. Campbell, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., for Louise B. Bell & Louise Jensen.

Fred Benton, Jr., Baton Rouge, La., for State of La. and La. Archaeological Survey & Antiquities Com'n.

Donald Juneau, New Orleans, La., for Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Indians.

JOHN V. PARKER, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, Leonard Charrier, brought this action in the 20th Judicial District for the Parish of West Feliciana, Louisiana, seeking relief under Louisiana law in the form of a declaratory judgment and quantum meruit damages. The case involves ownership of artifacts discovered by plaintiff in an Indian burial ground near Tunica, Louisiana. The artifacts were apparently deposited as grave goods and funerary offerings by the Tunica Indians...

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