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Show NEGRESS GETS $20,000,000 !N OIL PROPERTY Louisiana Supreme Court Hands Down Decision Settling Land Dispute NEW ORLEANS, Feb 28 Oil lands In Clalrborne parish said to be worth nearlj $20.000.000 were declared Monday Mon-day by the Louisiana supreme court to be the propertj of Lillian G. Taylor, Tay-lor, a negress when the court denied a request for the appointment of a curator for tho estate of Lona Metier her mother. J Rues Klmherly, district attorney of Clalrborne parish, brought action in the district court of that pariah to hae himself named curator for the estate, contending that the estate v as-a as-a 'vacant" one as no legit Itmate helrd were living. upon dismissal of h suit in the district court he appeab.,1 to the supreme court, reiterating former ..pinion decreeing the land hers, to be the acknowledged dough ter of Lona McOee, wife of the former owner of the land. |