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LAFAYETTE'S HEIRS v. KENTON ET AL. AND CARTER ET AL.

59 U.S. 197 (1855)

18 How. 197

THE HEIRS OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. JOSEPH KENTON ET AL. THE HEIRS OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. EDWARD C. CARTER ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

They were argued by Mr. Taylor, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Benjamin and Mr. Janin, for defendants.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

By an act of 1803, congress authorized the secretary of war, to issue to Major-General Lafayette land warrants, amounting in all, to 11,520 acres. By the act of March 2, 1805, he was authorized to locate his warrants on any lands, "the property of the United States," within the Orleans territory; the locations to be made with the register of a land-office established there, and the surveys were to be executed...

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