Parrott v. Wikoff

The judgment of the court was pronounced by

Eustis, C. J.*

The conclusion to which we have come on the merits of this case dispenses with the necessity of examining the preliminary and incidental questions, which have been presented to us in argument, and the plea of prescription which has been urged on behalf of the defendants.

On the 12th day of July, 1811, the Commissioners of the United States for the Western District of the late Orleans Territory confirmed to John JDinsmore, of the county of Opelousas, his claim to a tract of land containing about five hundred superficial arpents, being for…