Delassus v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ON.appeal from the district court of the United States for th,e Missouri district. - On the 18th of May 1829, Charles Dehault Delassus, legal representative of Pedro Dehault Delassus, under the authority of the act of congress, entitled “ an act enabling the claimants to lands with the limits of the state of Missouri, and the territory of the Arkansas, to institute proceedings to'try the validity of their claims,” filed in the office of the. clerk of the district court of…
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ON.appeal from the district court of the United States for th,e Missouri district. - On the 18th of May 1829, Charles Dehault Delassus, legal representative of Pedro Dehault Delassus, under the authority of the act of congress, entitled “ an act enabling the claimants to lands with the limits of the state of Missouri, and the territory of the Arkansas, to institute proceedings to'try the validity of their claims,” filed in the office of the. clerk of the district court of the-United States for the district of Missouri, the following petition. “To the honourable - the judge of the district…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
Court.
This is an appeal from a decree pronounced by the court of the United States, :for the district of Missouri, by which the claim-and title of the petitioner, Charles Dehault De-lassus, to a tract of land in his petition mentioned, under a concession alleged to be authorized by the laws of Spain, and protected by the treaties ceding Louisiana to the United States, was declared to be invalid.
The suit was instituted under the act of the 25th of May 1824, “ enabling the claimants to lands within the limits' of the state of Missouri, .and territory of Arkansas, to institute proceedings to try…
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