Babineau v. Cormier

The dispute between the parties in this action, has grown out of a purchase, made by the defendant, from one of the co-heirs of the plaintiff, of a tract of land of three and a half arpents front, on the bayou Carancro, with the depth of forty-two, it being a part of a tract ten arpents front, with the depth already mentioned, originally conceded to Ann Guilbeaux, mother to the plaintiff.

*457The grant from the government is in the usual form, and issued upon a survey made by the commandant of Attakapas. Several years after the date of this concession, eight of the neighboring inhabitants, who had…