Girard v. City of New Orleans

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.

This suit is instituted for the rocovory of certain lands and slaves which formed part of the succession of tho lato Stephen Girard1 of Phi*898ladelphia, ®f whom the plaintiffs are the heirs at'law. It- involves the validity and effect of certain dispositions of his last will, and particularly of one by which ,, 4 the testator gave a-tract of'one thousand acres of land in the parish of Ouachita, established as a plantation, including the slaves, to the city of New Orleans, and disposed of the usufruct of the land and slaves to Henry Bry, for…