Sacket v. Hooper
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE FIFTH PRESIDING. On. the 21st of April, 1827, David F. Sacket, of the state' of Indiana, commenced this action for the recovery of four hundred arpens of land, being half of eight hundred arpens, situated on the right bank of Bayou Robert, in the parish ol Rapides, at a place called the Pascagoula or Indian Old Fields.
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APPEAL PROM THE COURT OP THE SIXTH DISTRICT, THE JUDGE OF THE FIFTH PRESIDING. On. the 21st of April, 1827, David F. Sacket, of the state' of Indiana, commenced this action for the recovery of four hundred arpens of land, being half of eight hundred arpens, situated on the right bank of Bayou Robert, in the parish ol Rapides, at a place called the Pascagoula or Indian Old Fields. The plaintiff claims under title emanating from the Spanish government., the defendant claims under the same .% ° title. In September 1801, the Spanish commandant granted to Edward McLaughlin his requite and…
1Opinion of the CourtJWathews, J.
In this case the plaintiff claims title to a tract of land, situated on the Bayou Robert, in the Parish of Rapides, containing four hundred arpens. The answer is made up of a general denial and a plea of prescription, &c.
Judgment was rendered in the court below for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed.
It is shown by the evidence of the case, that the title to the land in dispute was confirmed to William Wiley, senior, who made claim to it before the Commissioners of the Land Office for the Western District of Louisiana (then Territory of Orleans). The certificate• of confirmation…
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