Montgomery v. Samory
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Courts and jurists everywhere agree that the title to real estate is governed by the laws of the place where it is situated, the universal rule being that the title to such property can only be acquired, passed, or lost ■ according to the lex loci rei sitae: Story, Confl. Laws (6th ed.), sect. 424; Wharton, Confl. Laws, sect. 278.
Enough appears in the record to show that the father of the minor plaintiff owned the property in controversy, and that he being indebted to the defendant in the sums expressed in the four promissory notes referred to in the transcript, executed to his creditor the…
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