Blanc v. Lafayette
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of Louisiana, by a writ of error issued under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act. ; By agreement of counsel in the State court, many .original documents were used in the trial in the Supreme'Court of Louisiana, which were left out of the record when it was transmitted to this court. . It did not, therefore, furnish all the facts necessary for a complete statement of the case, which, however, have been taken from…
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This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of Louisiana, by a writ of error issued under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act. ; By agreement of counsel in the State court, many .original documents were used in the trial in the Supreme'Court of Louisiana, which were left out of the record when it was transmitted to this court. . It did not, therefore, furnish all the facts necessary for a complete statement of the case, which, however, have been taken from other áuthentie sources. It was a conflict between a patent issued for some land near New Orleans to General Lafayette, in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
The plaintiff in error having claimed the land in dispute under an act of Congress, and-t'he construction of that act by the Supreme Court of Louisiana having been against the claim, the case is brought here under the twenty-fifth section of the. judiciary act"of 1789, to have the opinion given in that court reviewed by this tribunal.
The question presented is, whether or not the claim of Louis Liotaud for a tract of land situated in the Eastern District of Louisiana was confirmed by the act of Congress of the 11th of May, 1820 (3 Stat. at Large, 573), against any claim to the land by the…
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