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THE UNITED STATES v. BOISDORE ET AL.

52 U.S. 63 (____)

11 How. 63

THE UNITED STATES, APPELLANTS, v. ETIENNE ALPHONSO BOISDORÉ, LAURENT BOISDORÉ, SIDNEY BOISDORÉ, MATHILDE AND ALERINE NICOLAS, WIDOW OF MANUEL FABRE DANONY, CAROLINE NICOLAS, ELISE NICOLAS, JOSEPH MANUEL DE LABARRE, DELPHINE VICTOIRE DE LABARRE REAL AND HER HUSBAND CHRISTOVAL REAL, LOUIS DEJEAN, ANTOINE BOISDORÉ, AND MANATTE DEJEAN PARDON AND HER HUSBAND VINCENTE PARDON, HEIRS OF LOUIS BOISDORÉ, DECEASED.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Crittenden (Attorney-General), for the United States, and by Mr. Volney E. Howard, with whom was Mr. Henderson, for the appellees.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

The heirs of Boisdoré filed their petition, in the nature of a bill in equity, pursuant to the act of 1824, revived by that of 1844, against the United States, claiming a decree to a perfect title for a large body of land fronting on the Bay of St. Louis and the Gulf of Mexico, and extending in depth to Pearl River; containing between one hundred thousand and four...

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