Haydel v. Dufresne
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up from the supreme court of the State of Louisiana, by a wait of error issued under the 25th section of the judiciary act.
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This case was brought up from the supreme court of the State of Louisiana, by a wait of error issued under the 25th section of the judiciary act. The widow Francois Dufresne filed her petition in the fourth judicial district court of the State of Louisiana, in the parish of St. John the Baptist, complaining that the United States deputy surveyor had allotted to her 79%% acres of back land, instead of 121T3%andhad given to Mrs. widow Marcelin Haydel, 243,“ acres, instead of 201%%, which was her fair proportion. It is not necessary to trace the progress of the dispute, or to refer to the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
The plaintiff and defendant are respectively owners of tracts of land forty arpens deep, situate -in -a concave bend of the Mississippi River, in Louisiana; their tracts1 front on different sides of the deepest point of land, and when the side lines of each tract are extended perpendicular to a base line corresponding with the bank of the river, the two tracts interfere before the second depth of forty arpens is obtained.
By the 5th section of an act approved the 15th of February, 1811, congress provided “ that every person who, either by virtue of a French or Spanish grant, recognized by the…
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