Keene v. McDonough

The writ of error in this case, brings up the record of a judgment Tendered against the plaintiff in error, in the district couit of the United States for the eastern district of Louisiana. The plaintiff, according to tlie course of proceedings in that state, presented his petition to the court, stating, that on the 22d of May 1803, in virtue of a lawful purchase at public sale, duly and legally made by Don Carlos de Grand Pre, governor of the post and establishment of Baton Rouge, he became the owner and proprietor of a tract of land, appertaining to the “ testamentaria,” or successor of the…