Grevemberg v. Bradford
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans* King, J. _ The holder of a certificate of location, or land scrip, issued in favor of “E. B or her legal representatives,” holds it subject to inquiry, in a court of justice as to the person to whom it should inure.
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans* King, J. _ The holder of a certificate of location, or land scrip, issued in favor of “E. B or her legal representatives,” holds it subject to inquiry, in a court of justice as to the person to whom it should inure. Hogan vs. Page, 2 Wall. 605. 2. Neither such holder nor any assignee can avoid liability to the true owner by locating the scrip upon and converting it into land, and taking a patent in his own name, The owner of the scrip may recover the land from the locator* Brush vs. Ware, 15 Pet. 93; Reeder vs. Barr, 4 Ohio, 446.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
This is a petitory action in ordinary form, instituted by certain persons alleging themselves to be the heirs of Euphrosine Boisdoré, widow of Francois Grevemberg, deceased, for the recovery of a tract of land situated in the parish of St. Landry, quoad that portion held by him at date suit was filed, and for the avails of such portion thereof as had been theretofore sold by him.
The plaintiffs’ claim of title may be stated in this wise, viz.:
That Euphrosine Boisdoré died in the parish of St. Martin, this State, in the year 1818, and upon an…
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