Close v. Rowan

This is a suit to recover 152.2 acres of land in the parish of St. Landry. The plaintiffs are seventy-odd in number, and claim to be the heirs of John Close and Euphrosine Barre, his wife, who died intestate many years ago. The land forms part of a grant, made in 1765 by the King of Spain to one Courtableau, which in 1786 passed to Charles Barre, the father of Euphrosine Barre, in whose name the grant was confirmed by Congress in 1811. Plaintiffs allege that in 1813 Charles Barre donated the land here involved to his daughter, Euphrosine Barre, wife of John Close, and that at the death of…