United States v. Lynde
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. The heirs of John Lynde filed a petition in the court below, the object of the suit having been to obtain the recognition and confirmation, as against the United States, of a claim for 32,025 arpents of land in Louisiana, under The provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, “An act for the final adjustment of Private Land Claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other…
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. The heirs of John Lynde filed a petition in the court below, the object of the suit having been to obtain the recognition and confirmation, as against the United States, of a claim for 32,025 arpents of land in Louisiana, under The provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, “An act for the final adjustment of Private Land Claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other purposes.” Approved June 22, I860.* The petitioners claimed title under a grant by Juan Ventura Morales, Spanish…
1Opinion of the Court
Mi\ Justice BRADLEY
stated the history and nature of the title on both sides, and delivered the opinion of the court.
Louisiana, as possessed by the French prior to 1763, embraced not only the entire territory west of the Mississippi, but also extended east of that river, along the Gulf of Mexico, as far as the Perdido, the present boundary between Alabama and Florida. By the treaties of 1763 France ceded the latter portion, lying east of the Mississippi, except the city and. island of New Orleans, to Great Britain, and the residue to Spain. Subsequently (in 1783), .Spain acquired the part…
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