Slack v. Orillion
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM TIIE COURT OP THE POURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, POR THE PARISH OF IBERVILLE, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING.
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Eastern Dist. APPEAL FROM TIIE COURT OP THE POURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, POR THE PARISH OF IBERVILLE, THE JUDGE THEREOF PRESIDING. This is a petitory action, in which the plaintiff alleges he is the legal owner of two thousand acres of land, situated and lying on the Bayou Grosse Téte, in the parish of Iberville, which has been specially located and surveyed by the surveying department of the United States, and confirmed by the government, as a settlement right to John Franchebois and to Louis A. Reboul, who took possession thereof in 1798, and has been continued in possession by them, and those…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
In this case, our attention has been drawn to the charge of the judge to the jury, which was excepted to by the counsel for the appellants.
The jury were instructed, that if the defendants’, title, which is derived from the same source as that of plaintiff’s, was acquired after the confirmation of plaintiff’s claim, then he has no title, because the government had already parted with its title, and therefore had none to sell; that the jury *590had nothing- to do with the proceedings or evidence on which (jie commissioners or congress acted, in granting the confirmation of plaintiff’s title, and…
2Cited by3 opinions
- Lafayette v. BlancSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1848
- Millaudon v. McDonoughSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1841
- Orillion v. SlackSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1843