Menard's Heirs v. Massey
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri. It was one. of those cases Arising from a conflict between an old Spanish .concession and a title otherwise acquired. The acts of Congress, passed from time to time to regulate these claims, are all set forth in the report of the case of Stoddard v. Chambers, 2 Howard, 317, and need not be repeated.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Missouri. It was one. of those cases Arising from a conflict between an old Spanish .concession and a title otherwise acquired. The acts of Congress, passed from time to time to regulate these claims, are all set forth in the report of the case of Stoddard v. Chambers, 2 Howard, 317, and need not be repeated. It is only necessary now to state the respective titles of the plaintiffs and defendant, as exhibited by themselves. This was-'an action of ejectment brought by Amédée Menard, a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
On the 5th of November, 1799, Pascal L. Cerré petitioned the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Louisiana for a concession of land, in two parcels, in full property, one half of which, or thirty-five hundred and twenty eight arpens, to be taken at a place known by the name of the Great Source of the River Maramee, at about three hundred miles from its mouth-; the other half, or thirty-five hundred and twenty-eight arpens, at some distance from the first, at the upper part of the headwaters of the Gasconade, and of those of the fork of the Maramee, known by the name of La Bourbeuse, or Muddy. To…
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