SOULARD AND OTHERS v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
THESE cases came before the court, on appeals from-the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri. In the district .court of Missouri, the appellants, under the act of congress of the 26th of May 1824, instituted proceedings to try the validity of their ¡claims to certain lands in Missouri; the titles to which they claimed to derive under the former Spanish govo - iment. The district court gave a decree against the claimants.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
stated,
The court have held the two cases of Soulard and John T. .Smith against the United States under advisement;. After bestowing upon them the most deliberate attention, we .are unable to form a judgment which Would be satisfactory to ourselves, oi which ought to satisfy the public.
In the ¡treaty by which Louisiana was acquired, the United ■ States stipulated that the inhabitants of the ceded territory should be protected in the free enjoyment of their property. The United States, as a just nation, regard this stipulation as the'avowal of a principle which .would have been held equally…
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