Trenier v. Stewart
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. H. T. Toulmin. This action was brought by Isabella P. Stewart and W. W. McGuire, the latter suing as the personal representative of Eleanor M. Cannon, deceased, against John Trenier, to recover the possession of a tract of land (or a four-fifths interest therein) which forms a part of Mon Louis Island; and was commenced on the 12th September, 1888. The plaintiffs derived title under an ancient French grant, or…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. H. T. Toulmin. This action was brought by Isabella P. Stewart and W. W. McGuire, the latter suing as the personal representative of Eleanor M. Cannon, deceased, against John Trenier, to recover the possession of a tract of land (or a four-fifths interest therein) which forms a part of Mon Louis Island; and was commenced on the 12th September, 1888. The plaintiffs derived title under an ancient French grant, or cession, to Nicholas Baudin, which was confirmed to his heirs, by act of congress, in 1829; while the defendant claimed…
1Opinion of the Court
MANNING, J.- —
This is an action at law, brought by ap-pellees to recover four-fifths of a parcel of- land on Mon Louis Island; which island, as it is called, is a triangular tract of over 14,000 acres of land in tbe lower part of Mobile county, bounded east by tbe bay of Mobile, north-west by tbe narrow watercourse, or “ cut-off,” called Fowl river, and south by tbe waters of tbe sound which separates tbe mainland, of wbicb Mon Louis Island is a part, from Dauphin Island. Tbe plaintiffs claim title aspuchasersfrom tbe heirs of Nicholas Baudin, deriving it from a French concession formerly…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stewart v. TrenierSupreme Court of Alabama · 1873
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