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UNITED STATES v. ROSELIUS ET AL.

56 U.S. 36 (1853)

15 How. 36

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.

Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from the decree of the District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, in a proceeding instituted in that court by John McDonogh, in his lifetime, to try the validity of his claim to certain land mentioned in his petition. The proceeding was under the acts of 1824 and 1844.

The petition was presented on the 15th of June, 1846, and sets...

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