The Heirs of C. And M. De Armas v. The United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This case came up by appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. It was a petition in the District Court relating to land, the circumstances of which it is unnecessary to state, any further than they are referred to in the opinion of the court, as the case went off upon a point of jurisdiction. It was argued by Mr. S. S. Prentiss and Mr. Perin, for the appellants, and Mr. Clifford (AttorneyrGeneral), for the United States.
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This case came up by appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. It was a petition in the District Court relating to land, the circumstances of which it is unnecessary to state, any further than they are referred to in the opinion of the court, as the case went off upon a point of jurisdiction. It was argued by Mr. S. S. Prentiss and Mr. Perin, for the appellants, and Mr. Clifford (AttorneyrGeneral), for the United States. That part of the argument of the Attorney-General which related to the point of jurisdiction was.as follows.. On the part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This case is brought here by appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana.
It appears that a petition was filed by the appellants, claiming an inchoate title to certain lands, under Spanish grants, which they alleged the United States were bound to perfect; but that these lands had been sold by the;-United States to divers persons unknown to the petitioners. They therefore prayed that the validity of their claim might be inquired into, and that they be allowed to locate the same number of arpents upon the public domain, according to the provisions óf the…
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