City of Baltimore v. City of New Orleans

The opinion of the court was delivered bj

Fenner, J.

This suit was instituted on August 14, 1867. It is an action of partition of property alleged to be owned in common by the city of New Orleans and the city of Baltimore, consisting of a *527tract of land of 177 arpents, arising ont of a land claim bequeathed to them by John McDonough, which, subsequent to his death, was confirmed in their favor by an act of Congress passed June 7, 1858. The petition represented that the heirs of John L. Daniel claimed to own one undivided half of said land in virtue of some alleged contract with the two cities,…