Kittridge v. Dugas

The petition represents that Madame Charles Honoré Breaud was, on the 1st of June, 1836, the owner of a tract *86of land of four arpens front on the bayou Lafourche, by forty in depth, on which day she entered and paid for the back lands, or doable concession under the acts of Congress of June 15th, 1832, and February 24th, 1835, which authorized the. inhabitants of Louisiana, to make such entries. A few days after this purchase or entry, Madame Breaud sold the lower half of this double concession to Raphael and Guillaume Moliere, who transferred it to the plaintiff, who took possession of the…