Kittridge v. Breaud
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the District Court of Assumption, Deblieux, J. Plaintiff’s vendor was not entitled to any right of pre-emption by the act of 1823. 1 Land Laws, 588, 777, 835. No legal entry had been made by him, nor had the title of the United States been divested. Ib. 456,457, 458, 460, 461, 570, 588, $ 4, and 586. 2lb.295. Civ.Code, arts. 2451, 2453, 2456. Jourdanv.
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Appeal from the District Court of Assumption, Deblieux, J. Plaintiff’s vendor was not entitled to any right of pre-emption by the act of 1823. 1 Land Laws, 588, 777, 835. No legal entry had been made by him, nor had the title of the United States been divested. Ib. 456,457, 458, 460, 461, 570, 588, $ 4, and 586. 2lb.295. Civ.Code, arts. 2451, 2453, 2456. Jourdanv. Barrett, 13 La. 24. The laws of the United Slates in relation to the public lands, only determine when, and how they are to be sold, leaving the rights of individuals under them to those of the state in which they are situated.…
1Opinion of the CourtGarland, J.
The plaintiff alleges that André Le Blanc, his vendor, being the owner of a front tract of land on the bayou 'La-fourche, having five arpens front, by forty in depth, did, on the 8th of May, 1822, and the 28th of August, 1824, enter at the Land Office in New Orleans a quantity of land equal to his front tract, under the acts of Congress of the 11th of May, 1820, and the 28th of February, 1823, which authorized front proprietors in this State to enter, at the minimum price, a quantity equal to that contained in their front tracts. These entries, he alleges, were legally surveyed and located,…
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