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UNITED STATES v. ROSELIUS ET AL.

56 U.S. 31 (1853)

15 How. 31

THE UNITED STATES, APPELLANTS, v. CHRISTIAN ROSELIUS, ABIAL D. CROSSMAN, WILLIAM E. LIVERIDGE, FRANCOIS B. D'AUTUIN, BENJAMIN C. HOWARD, JOHN SPEAR SMITH, BRANTZ MAYER, JOHN GIBSON, AND R.R. GURLEY, EXECUTORS OF JOHN McDONOGH, DECEASED.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Cushing, (Attorney-General,) for the United States, who made the following points:

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

John McDonogh claimed to be confirmed in a tract of land bounded in part by the river Mississippi; the front being 40 arpens more or less; bounded on the upper side, by a line running back from said river a distance of seventeen miles, and two hundred and twenty-seven perches, more or less, until it strikes the river Amitie, on a course by compass of north 35° west...

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