The counsel for the appellant rested the case upon the following point:
The grant in this case was complete, and the grantee was in possession of the land and cultivated it.
It is true, the grant bears date about one month after the treaty of Paris, of the 10th of February, 1763.
But by the treaty of San Ildefonso, of October 1, 1800, the province of Louisiana was retroceded to France.
The permission of undisturbed possession under the grant...
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