McMICKEN v. UNITED STATES


97 U.S. 204 (____)

McMICKEN v. UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Willis Drummond and Mr. Robert H. Bradford for the appellant.

The Solicitor-General, contra.


MR. JUSTICE BRADLEY delivered the opinion of the court.

The claim to lands in this case originated as follows: On the 17th of December, 1798, William Coleman, an inhabitant of New Feliciana, within the bounds of the present State of Louisiana, east of the Mississippi River, applied to the Spanish governor-general for a grant of six hundred and ten arpents of land, for a plantation and settlement, in the district of Baton Rouge, three miles from the Mississippi. A...

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