McDonogh v. Millaudon
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was broüght~up by writ of error, under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act, from the-' Supreme Court of the state of Louisiana. The decision of this court being against its juris'diction, it seems best to give the opinion of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, as the facts in the ease and the points decided by that court are stated with great clearness. “Supreme Court of the state-of Louisiana.
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This case was broüght~up by writ of error, under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act, from the-' Supreme Court of the state of Louisiana. The decision of this court being against its juris'diction, it seems best to give the opinion of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, as the facts in the ease and the points decided by that court are stated with great clearness. “Supreme Court of the state-of Louisiana. “ The court met, Monday, April 26th, 1841. “Present, their honours Henry A. Bullard, A.' Morphy, E. Simon, and Rice Garland. His honour Judge Martin is absent on account .of indisposition.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
The question in the Supreme Court of Louisiana was- one of boundary. The court passed on the grant to Dupard only,-and not on the opposing claim: if the lines of the former did not open in their production from the Mississippi, towards Lake Maurepas, then the land claimed under Millaudon’s title was not embraced by Dupard’s grant, and no necessity existed for the examination of Millaudon’s. Dupard’s. was made in 1769, “for thirty arpens of front to the river Mississippi, upon the whole depth that shall bé found, unto Lake Maurepas,-of the land where heretofore were two villages of the…
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