United States v. Fitzgerald
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the . Circuit Court of the United States for East Louisiana. The United States, by a petitory action in the Circuit Court of Louisiana, claimed a tract of land, situated in the parish of Plaquemine, on the river- Mississippi, below the port of New Orleans.
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IN error to the . Circuit Court of the United States for East Louisiana. The United States, by a petitory action in the Circuit Court of Louisiana, claimed a tract of land, situated in the parish of Plaquemine, on the river- Mississippi, below the port of New Orleans. This land, one hundred and sixty acres, had been entered by the defendants in error, under a pre-emption right alleged to be founded on the possession arid cultivation of the tract, commencing in 1833. The entry had been regularly made in the office of the Register of Public Lands, in Louisiana, under the act of Congress of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice M'Kinley
This is a petitory action brought by the plaintiffs, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana, to recover one hundred and sixty acres of land, claimed by the defendants under the pre-emption law of the 19th of June, 1834. In their petition the plaintiffs' allege, that the defendants, under thé pretence that they were entitled to section number 8, containing one hundred and sixty, acres in township 24 of range 30, by right of pre-emption, on the 18th day of June, 1836, entered it with'the Register of the Land Office at New Orleans; that the • defendant,…
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