Brooks v. Norris
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from the District Court of Caddo, Boyce, J. The plaintiff is appellant from a judgment against him. He claimed a tract of land, under a conveyance from the sons and heirs of one Franyois Grappe, whose title rested on a reservation in his favor, contained in a supplementary article to a treaty, of the 1st July, 1835, between the United States and the Caddo Indians.
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Appeal from the District Court of Caddo, Boyce, J. The plaintiff is appellant from a judgment against him. He claimed a tract of land, under a conveyance from the sons and heirs of one Franyois Grappe, whose title rested on a reservation in his favor, contained in a supplementary article to a treaty, of the 1st July, 1835, between the United States and the Caddo Indians. This article, after reciting that the Caddo Indians had, in the year 1801, made a donation to the said Grappe, and his three sons, in the presence of the Spanish authorities at Natchitoches, of four leagues of land, declares…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The plaintiff alleges, that by a treaty made and entered into between the United States and the Caddo tribe of Indians, on the 1st of July, 1835, the boundaries between them were recognized and established, and the lands lying within the said recognized limits of the Caddo tribe, were ceded by them to the United States. That by supplementary articles to said treaty, entered into, and signed on the same day, there were given, granted, and reserved unto the heirs and legal representatives of Franpois Grappe, and to- Jacques Grappe, Dominique Grappe, and Balthazar Grappe, four leagues of land,…
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