United States v. Hughes
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a land case arising under the acts of 1824 and 1844, and came up by appeal from the. District Court of the United States for Louisiana. The parties were the same as in the two preceding cases. Joseph Hughes filed his petition on the 16th June, 1846, claiming 3200 arpents of land, as having been granted by the governor of Louisiana, Gayoso, on the 26th April, 1798, to André Martin. He alleges that said Martin took immediate possession, and held it till his death.
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This was a land case arising under the acts of 1824 and 1844, and came up by appeal from the. District Court of the United States for Louisiana. The parties were the same as in the two preceding cases. Joseph Hughes filed his petition on the 16th June, 1846, claiming 3200 arpents of land, as having been granted by the governor of Louisiana, Gayoso, on the 26th April, 1798, to André Martin. He alleges that said Martin took immediate possession, and held it till his death. That in the year 1840, the board of commissioners reported favorably on said claim, but that Congress had never acted upon…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is an appeal from a decree of the District .Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana.
The plaintiff claimed three thousand arpents of land situate in Louisiana, and fronting on the back part of lands of Oliver Thibocleaux, Theodore Thibodeaux, and Claude Martin, under a concession to André Martin from Governor Gayoso, 26. April, 1798. The proceedings-were under the act of 17th June, 1844, reviving the act of 26th May, 1824.
Evidence was given of the handwriting of Martin to the application for the land, and of Governor Gayoso to the concession.
The plaintiff also produced evidence of a…
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