The HEIRS OF DON CARLOS DE VILEMONT v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Arkansas. It was a^jietition 'filed by the heirs of Don Carlos dé Vilemont, under the act of 1824, as revived by the act of 1844, praying the confirmation of a grant of land issued by the Baron de Carondelet in 1795. The circumstances attending the grant are ■ set forth in the opinion of the court. The District Court decided against the claim and the petitioners appealed to this court.
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Arkansas. It was a^jietition 'filed by the heirs of Don Carlos dé Vilemont, under the act of 1824, as revived by the act of 1844, praying the confirmation of a grant of land issued by the Baron de Carondelet in 1795. The circumstances attending the grant are ■ set forth in the opinion of the court. The District Court decided against the claim and the petitioners appealed to this court. In the District Court, Horace F. Walworth, Mary B.- Miles, and' James B. Miles, were made defendants with the United States.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
delivered th^ opinion of the court.
The heirs of Don Carlos de Vilemont filed their petition in the District Court of Arkansas; to have a confirmation of a grant for two leagues of land front, by one league in depth, lying on the right descenNug bank of the Mississippi, at a place called the Island del Chico!, distant twenty-five leagues below the mouth of the Arkansas River; the cypress swamp of the island being-called for as the upper boundary of said tract.
The-Governor-General granted the land on the express conditions/“ that a road and regular clearing be made in the peremptory space of…
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