New Orleans Land Co. v. Brott

This is a petitory aetion for land in New Orleans brought by the Brotts against the New Orleans Land Company. Judgment was given for the Brotts except as' to one parcel which was adjudged to belong, to the defendant. The defendant brings a writ of error and the Brotts a cross writ.- The ground of the judgment was that the State acquired title to the land under the Swamp Land Act of March 2, 1849, .c. 87; 9 Stat. 352, and conveyed it to the plaintiffs’ predecessors, except that the parcel awarded to the defendant was held to have been excluded from’the Swamp Land grant to the State because…