Pontalba v. Copland

The judgment of the .court was pronounced by

Rost, J.*

This .controversy rose from the conflicting,claims of the parties ¡to lands in the rear of the city of New Orleans, the position of which is shown by the plans in the record. There is no controversy as to the respective claims of title, ,and we may proceed at once to examine the original grants of the parties and ¡the .action of .the government .of the United States upon them.

We will first notice the .title of the defendants. They claim under two grants, one made by the french government to Le Breton, on the 6th October, 1757, and .the…