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SLIDELL v. GRANDJEAN

111 U.S. 412 (1883)

SLIDELL & Another v. GRANDJEAN, Deputy Surveyor of the United States. SAME v. RICHARDSON, Register of State Land Office of Louisiana. SAME v. EMLER & Others. SAME v. TSCHIRN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. James L. Bradford for appellants and for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Solicitor-General for Grandjean and as amicus curiæ.

Mr. William Grant (Mr. J.D. Rouse was with him) for appellee Richardson, and defendant Tschirn.

Mr. Willis Drummond and Mr. Robert H. Bradford on this point filed a brief for appellants and plaintiffs in error.

Mr. J.D. Rouse and Mr. William Grant filed a brief for all the defendants.

Mr. Solicitor-General filed a brief for the United States.

The case was argued on the 2d January, and a decision announced on the 3d March, 1884. On the 24th March, 1884,

MR. JUSTICE FIELD announced the following order:

On the argument of these cases the contention of the plaintiffs was that the grant of Governor Galvez to Maurice Conway, on the 21st of June, 1777, embraced all the land in the rear of the original grant to him and Latil by Governor Unzaga, in November, 1774, included within the boundary lines of that...

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