Chouteau's Heirs v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri. Under the authority of an act of congress, entitled ‘fan act enabling the claimants of lands within the limits of the state of Missouri, and the territory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,” the appellants,'on the lSl.h of May 1829, filed the following petition and documents.
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APPEAL from the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri. Under the authority of an act of congress, entitled ‘fan act enabling the claimants of lands within the limits of the state of Missouri, and the territory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try the validity of their claims,” the appellants,'on the lSl.h of May 1829, filed the following petition and documents. “ To the honourable judge of the district court of the United States for the state of Missouri. . “ Respectfully showeth your petitioners, Ceré, Henry and Edward Chouteau, René Paul and E.ulalie his…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
This ig an appeal from a decree of the district court of Missouri, sitting under the act of the 26th of May 1824.
The devisees of Auguste Chouteau, a citizen of Missouri, presented their petition to the district court, in'which they state that their testator, on the 8th clay of January 1798, being then a resident of upper Louisiana, obtained from Don Zenon Trudeau, lieutenant governor of that province, a decree directing Don Antonio Soulard, the surveyor-general of the province, to put the said Chouteau in 'possession of the land prayed for; and to survey the same, and make a plat and…
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