Trenier v. Stewart
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama. This was an action of ejectment brought by the defendants in error in the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama, for the recovery, of a parcel of land on Mon Louis Island, a triangular tract of over 14,000 acres of land in the lower part of •that county, bounded on the east by Mobile Bay, on the northwest by Fowl River, and on the south by the waters of the sound which separates the mainland, of which Mon Louis Island is…
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Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama. This was an action of ejectment brought by the defendants in error in the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama, for the recovery, of a parcel of land on Mon Louis Island, a triangular tract of over 14,000 acres of land in the lower part of •that county, bounded on the east by Mobile Bay, on the northwest by Fowl River, and on the south by the waters of the sound which separates the mainland, of which Mon Louis Island is a part, from Dauphin Island. The plaintiffs in proof of their title put ip evidence an entry in American State Papers,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Claims to land, when the province of Louisiana was ceded to the-United States, were, in many instances, incomplete, arising largely from the'fact that the governor of the province, during Spanish rule, never had authority to issue a patent. Laws were accordingly passed by Congress very early after the jurisdiction was transferred, making provision for the adjustment of such inchoate claims, which in one form or another have been continued in force even to the present time.
Concessions of the kind having never received the sanction of the supreme power of the province, they did not have the…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Higueras v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1865
- Alviso v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- McCabe v. WorthingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
- Trenier v. StewartSupreme Court of Alabama · 1876
- Stewart v. TrenierSupreme Court of Alabama · 1873
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- Ainsa v. New Mexico & Arizona RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1899
- Sullivan v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Florida · 1894
- Jackson v. GallegosNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1934
- Catron v. LaughlinNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1903
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