LA: Ownership of land beneath the Caddo monument hard to determine
Thursday, October 19th 2017, 2:29 pm EDT
Thursday, October 19th 2017, 2:59 pm EDT
By Nick Lawton, Reporter
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - As the Caddo Parish Commission prepares to cast their final vote Thursday afternoon on the removal of the Confederate monument outside the downtown courthouse, one debate still rages over who actually owns the land beneath the monument.
It's still the subject of a current petition for declaratory judgment against the commission and Shreveport Chapter 237 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which owns the monument ...
KSLA obtained a copy of a 15-year-old title opinion that parish officials requested for Block 23, the parcel of land that the Caddo Parish Courthouse sits on according to the parish assessor's office ...
Carmody argues that, based on that 1903 ruling and the monument being there since 1906, the UDC has ownership of that land under acquisitive prescription ...
http://www.ksla.com/story/36637219/2002-title-opinion-points-to-no-specific-deed-over-land-under-confederate-monument