Dussaume v. Burnett
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from the Dubuque District Court. In Chancery. About tbe year 1796, one Bazil Giard took possession of, and made improvements upon, a tract of land, equal to one league square, on tbe west side of tbe Mississippi river, opposite tbe village of Prarie Du Cbien.
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Appeal from the Dubuque District Court. In Chancery. About tbe year 1796, one Bazil Giard took possession of, and made improvements upon, a tract of land, equal to one league square, on tbe west side of tbe Mississippi river, opposite tbe village of Prarie Du Cbien. In November, 1800, tbe Spanish Lieutenant Governor of Upper Louisiana, made a concession of tbis tract to ■ said Giard, and tbis concession was afterward in 1816, confirmed by tbe report of tbe recorder of land titles, at St. Louis, Missouri, and an act of Congress recognizing and referring to tbe same. About tbis time tbe said…
1Opinion of the CourtWright, C. J.
Both parties to this controversy, claim under Bazil Giard — the complainants, Dussaume and wife and Chenevert and wife, as his heirs, and McGregor, by deed from the said heirs of a portion of their interest in said land. On the other hand, the heirs of Burnett and Powell claim under the deeds made by the heirs of the said Giard, in 1836. It is manifest, therefore, that the decision of the case must depend, to a great extent, if not entirely, upon the validity of the conveyances under which respondents claim; for those conveyances being prior in date, and recorded long anterior to the one…
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