Safford v. Albritton

This suit was instituted under the provisions of Act 38 of 1908 for the purpose of establishing title to certain lands' claimed by the plaintiffs and the defendants, respectively, but not in the actual possession of either of the parties. The judgment of the court below recognized plaintiffs as the owners of the lands, and defendants have appealed.

Plaintiffs’ title originated in a grant made in 1796 by the crown of Spain to Pierre Dolet. In 1884 this grant was confirmed to the heirs of Dolet by a decree of the United States Supreme Court (United States v. Perot, 98 U. S. 428, 25 L. Ed. 251),…