New Orleans v. Paine
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. . This was a bill in equity filed in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, by the city of New Orleans, suing as residuary legatee under the will of John McDonough, deceased, against the- deputy surveyor general of the United States for the State of Louisiana, to enjoin him from surveying and locating a new back line or rear boundary of a French grant, and .-from dividing into…
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APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT. . This was a bill in equity filed in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, by the city of New Orleans, suing as residuary legatee under the will of John McDonough, deceased, against the- deputy surveyor general of the United States for the State of Louisiana, to enjoin him from surveying and locating a new back line or rear boundary of a French grant, and .-from dividing into sections lands alleged to belong to the plaintiff north of, and contiguous to, such new back line. The grant in question…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This case turns upon the power of the court to enjoin the action Of an Officer of the Land Department in relocating. the boundaries of a. land grant; and an injunction is demanded upon- the theory that a former survey of the same line had been examined, approved and paid fpr, and that' the rights of the plaintiff to the lands included in such survey had thereby become vested. ■ "
In Noble v. Union River Logging Railroad, decided at the present term, {ante 165,) we had occasion to examine the question as to when a court was authorized to interfere by injunction with the action of the Head of a…
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