United States v. Power's Heirs
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United' States for the Southern District, of Mississippi. . It was the cáse of a petition, and amended-petition, presented by the heirs- of Thomas Power to the District Court for the .Southern District of Mississippi, the first on the 15th of June, 1846, and the latter on the 11th of November, 1846, under the act of 1824, as révived and reenacted by that of 1844, claiming two very valuable'islands, lying off the coast of the…
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United' States for the Southern District, of Mississippi. . It was the cáse of a petition, and amended-petition, presented by the heirs- of Thomas Power to the District Court for the .Southern District of Mississippi, the first on the 15th of June, 1846, and the latter on the 11th of November, 1846, under the act of 1824, as révived and reenacted by that of 1844, claiming two very valuable'islands, lying off the coast of the State of Mississippi, opposite the Bay of Biloxi. The petition and amended petition, in substance, set forth, that,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
In this case the petition sets forth that, before the year 1760,1 Deer Island was. occupied, with the verbal consent of the provincial authorities, by Pierre Laclede and Pierre Songy, who on the 11th of September,' 1760, sold their-right of property thereof, and -the improvements thereon, to Andre Jung; and that he made a similar sale tojgnace Brontin; that said Brontin sold the same to Francisco Caminada, who for a great length of time thereafter occupied said island; and that in 1806 ^ Prosper Prieur', acting as the testamentary executor of Caminada, sold to Thomas Power, ancestor of…
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