Foster v. Neilson
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error $ie district coürt of the eastern district of Louisiana, The pláintiffs in error filed their petition in the district court setting forth, that on the 2d of January" 1804, Jaytiie Joydra purchased of the Spanish government for a'valuable, consideration, and was put in possession of a certain tract or parcel of land, situated in the district of Feliciana,.thirty miles to thé east of the Mississippi, within the province of West Florida, containing forty thousand…
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IN error $ie district coürt of the eastern district of Louisiana, The pláintiffs in error filed their petition in the district court setting forth, that on the 2d of January" 1804, Jaytiie Joydra purchased of the Spanish government for a'valuable, consideration, and was put in possession of a certain tract or parcel of land, situated in the district of Feliciana,.thirty miles to thé east of the Mississippi, within the province of West Florida, containing forty thousand arpents, having the. marks and boundaries as laid down in the original plat, of survey annexed to the deed of salé, made by…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
delivered the opinion of the Court..
This suit was brought by the plaintiffs in error in the court of the United States, for the eastern district of Louisiana, to recover a tract of land lying in that district, about thirty miles.east of the Mississippi, and in the possession Of the defendant. The plaintiffs claimed under • a grant for 40,000 arpents of land, made by the Spanish governor,, on the 2d of January 1804, to Jayme Joydra, and ratified by the king of-Spain on the 29th\of May 1804. The petition and order of survey are dated iirSeptember 1803, and the return of the. survey itself was…
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