McCastle v. Chaney

This is a petitory action in which plaintiff claims title to a certain tract of land from the State of Louisiana under act of Congress of the twentieth of May, 1826, by virtue of which act the State selected the said land in May, 1856, and issued to him a patent in 1873. He asks that the patent issued by the United States to J. J. B. Chaney in June, 1860, be declared null, as having been issued in error, and that he be put in possession. The defendants in possession claim by donation from J. J. B. Chaney, to whom a patent was issued by the United States; and, in case of eviction, they claim…