United States v. Reynes
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. On the 10th of December, 1803, the following certificate of survey was issued: — “ I, Don Yincente Sebastian Pintado, captain of militia cavalry and deputy surveyor of this Province, do hereby certify, that there has been measured and the boundaries marked of a tract of land for Don José Reynes, containing 40,000 superficial arpents, measured by the perch of the city of Paris, of…
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This was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. On the 10th of December, 1803, the following certificate of survey was issued: — “ I, Don Yincente Sebastian Pintado, captain of militia cavalry and deputy surveyor of this Province, do hereby certify, that there has been measured and the boundaries marked of a tract of land for Don José Reynes, containing 40,000 superficial arpents, measured by the perch of the city of Paris, of 18 feet of said city, calculating 100 superficial perches to the' arpent, according- to the agrarian custom of this…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. "Justice DANIEL
delivered the opinion of the court.
The petitioner in the court below, as the heir of Jose Reynes, claimed under a grant from the government of Spain, forty thousand arpents of land, lying within what was formerly the district of Eaton Rouge, now making portions of the parishes of East Feliciana and St. Helena in the State of Louisiana. The documents upon which this claim is asserted, so far as the formalities entering into the creation of a complete title under the Spanish government are requisite, appear to be regular, and to have been admitted in evidence without…
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