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- Title: James Foster and Pleasants Elam, Plaintiffs in Error v. David Neilson
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1829
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 113 KB
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IN error to the district court of the eastern district of Louisiana. The plaintiffs in error filed their petition in the district court setting forth, that on the 2d of January 1804, Jayme Joydra purchased of the Spanish government for a valuable consideration, and was put in possession of a certain tract or parcel of land, situated in the district of Feliciana, thirty miles to the east of the Mississippi, within the province of West Florida, containing forty thousand arpents, having the marks and boundaries as laid down in the original plat of survey annexed to the deed of sale, made by Juan Ventura Morales then intendent of the Spanish government, dated January 2d, 1804, which sale was duly confirmed by the king of Spain, by his resolves dated May 29, 1804, and February 20th, 1805.