Doe ex dem. Kennedy's Ex'rs v. Jones
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mobile. This was an action of ejectment at the suit of the plaintiff in error, for the recovery of land thus described in the declaration, viz: “ All that certain lot of ground covered with water, together with the wharf thereon erected, and the dock thereupon, with all the water privileges thereto appertaining, situate, lying and being in the city of Mobile, and county of Mobile, in front of, and east of St. Louis street, and between…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mobile. This was an action of ejectment at the suit of the plaintiff in error, for the recovery of land thus described in the declaration, viz: “ All that certain lot of ground covered with water, together with the wharf thereon erected, and the dock thereupon, with all the water privileges thereto appertaining, situate, lying and being in the city of Mobile, and county of Mobile, in front of, and east of St. Louis street, and between Commerce street and Mobile river, bounded on the south by property of William Jones, Jr., on the north by property of Joshua…
1Opinion of the CourtCollier, C. J.
On the 19th April, 1798, Thomas Price, the English interpreter residing at Mobile, petitioned Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, the Spanish Governor of Louisiana, for a tract of land having twenty arpens in front, by thirty in depth, bounded on the north by lands anciently the property of Terry and Mazurie ; on the east by the granted lots in the town of Mobile, and by the river, and on the west and south by vacant lands. In aid of Price’s petition, Manuel de Lanzos, the then commandant of Mobile, informed the Governor that the land thus applied for was vacant, the petitioner was a useful person, had…
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