Livingston v. Dorgenois

11 U.S. 577

7 Cranch 577

3 L.Ed. 444

LIVINGSTON

v.

DORGENOIS.

February 18, 1813

1

Absent. LIVINGSTON, J. and TODD, J.

2

THIS was a writ of error to the District Court of the United States for the District of Orleans, in a suit brought in that Court, by Edward Livingston against F. I. Le Breton Dorgenois marshal of the territory of Orleans, according to the forms of the civil law as established in that territory.

3

The petition of E. Livingston stated, that one John Gravier, on the 30th of April, 1803, was an inhabitant of the province of Louisiana; that he was the owner and possessor of a plantation or…