Patton v. Cities of Philadelphia & New Orleans
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. The petitioners allege, that they are the only lawful heirs and representatives of one Abraham Morehouse, who died in the parish of Ouachita, in the year 1813, intestate; that on the 21st June, 1796, the Baron de Carondelet, then Governor of Louisiana, made a concession of land to the Baron de Bas-trop, in the district of Ouachita, of twelve leagues square, which was duly located and surveyed; that them…
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APPEAL from the District Court of the First District, Buchanan, J. The petitioners allege, that they are the only lawful heirs and representatives of one Abraham Morehouse, who died in the parish of Ouachita, in the year 1813, intestate; that on the 21st June, 1796, the Baron de Carondelet, then Governor of Louisiana, made a concession of land to the Baron de Bas-trop, in the district of Ouachita, of twelve leagues square, which was duly located and surveyed; that them ancestor and one Charles Lynch, having become interested with the Baron de Bastrop in said concession, Lynch and the Baron de…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the court was pronounced by
Rost, J.*
This was a suit for the slander of a title unattended with possession, which the issue made by the defendants has changed into a petitory action.
*101The plaintiffs aver, thattheir ancestor, Abraham Morehouse, acquired, in 1805, four undivided tenths of all that grant of land made by the Spanish government to the Baron, de Bastrop, in the District of Ouachita, on the 21st day of; June, 1796 ; that they are his only lawful heirs, and representatives, and have never sold, or otherwise disposed of their rights to said lands; that the late Stephen…
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