Landry v. Gautreau

The plaintiff being the owner of a tract of land of four arpens front, by forty in depth, confirmed to his vendor, Ar-man'd Landry, on the bayou Lafourche, on. the 22d of February, 1822, purchased from the Register of the Land Office, and the Receiver of Public Moneys at New Orleans, an equal quantity, viz., one hundred and forty seven superficial acres, in the rear of and adjacent to his front tract, under the provisions of an act of Congress, approved the 3d of March, 1811, and revived for two years, 'by the seventh section of another act, approved May 11th, 1820. 1 Land Laws, 588, 779.…