THE UNITED STATES v. REYNES


50 U.S. 127 (1850)

9 How. 127

THE UNITED STATES, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. JOSEPH REYNES.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued for the appellants by Mr. Johnson (Attorney-General), and by Messrs. Brent and May, for the appellee.


Mr. Justice DANIEL delivered the opinion of the court.

The petitioner in the court below, as the heir of Jose Reynes, claimed under a grant from the government of Spain, forty thousand arpents of land, lying within what was formerly the district of Baton Rouge, now making portions of the parishes of East Feliciana and St. Helena in the State of Louisiana. The documents upon which this...

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