Hogan v. Page
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to tbe Supreme Court of Missouri; tbe case being tbus; After tbe cession, in 1803, by Prance, of Louisiana, to the United States, Congress passed an act* establishing a board of commissioners at St. Louis, for the purpose of settling imperfect French and Spanish claims.
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ERROR to tbe Supreme Court of Missouri; tbe case being tbus; After tbe cession, in 1803, by Prance, of Louisiana, to the United States, Congress passed an act* establishing a board of commissioners at St. Louis, for the purpose of settling imperfect French and Spanish claims. Tbe act provided that any person who bad, for ten consecutive years prior to tbe 20th December, 1803, been in possession of a tract of land not owned by any other person, &e., “ should be confirmed in their titles.” In 1808, one Louis Lamonde presented a claim for a tract of one by forty arpens, “ formerly tbe property…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
On looking into the cases cited on the part of the plaintiff, it will be seen that the confirmations which there appeared were either to the assignee claimant by name, or in general ■terms, that is, to the original grantee and “ his legal representatives and when in the latter form, it was the assignee-claimant who had presented the claim before the board, and had furnished evidence before it of his derivative title, and which had not been the subject of dispute. The present case, therefore, is different from either of the cases referred to.
A difficulty had occurred at the Land Office, at an…
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