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MICHOUD ET AL. v. GIROD ET AL.

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45 U.S. 503 (1846)

4 How. 503

11 L.Ed. 1076

ANTOINE MICHOUD, JOSEPH MARIE GIROD, GABRIEL MONTAMAT, FELIX GRIMA, JEAN B. DEJAN, AINE, DENIS PRIEUR, CHARLES CLAIBORNE, MANDEVILLE MARIGNY, MADAM E. GRIMA, WIDOW SABATIER, A. FOURNIER, E. MAZUREAU, E. RIVOLET, CLAUDE GURLIE, THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, THE TREASURER OF THE CHARITY HOSPITAL, AND THE CATHOLIC ORPHAN'S ASYLUM, APPELLANTS, v. PERONNE BERNARDINE GIROD, WIDOW OF J.P.H. PARGOUD, RESIDING AT ABERVILLE, IN THE DUCHY OF SAVOY, ROSALIE GIROD, WIDOW OF PHILIP ADAM, RESIDING AT FAVERGES, IN THE DUCHY OF SAVOY, ACTING FOR THEMSELVES AND IN BEHALF OF THEIR COHEIRS OF CLAUDE FRANCOIS GIROD, TO WIT, LOUIS JOSEPH POIDEBARD, FRANÇOIS S. POIDEBARD, DENIS P. POIDEBARD, WIDOW OF P. NICOUD; JACQUELINE POIDEBARD, WIFE OF MARIE RIVOLET; CLAUDINE POIDEBARD, WIDOW OF P.F. POIDEBARD; AND M.R. POIDEBARD, WIFE OF ANTHELME VALLIER, AND ALSO OF FRANÇOIS QUETAND, JEAN M.F. QUETAND, MARIE J. QUETAND, WIFE OF J.M. AVIT; FRANÇOISE QUETAND, WIFE OF J.A. ALLARD; MARIE R. QUETAND, MARIE B. QUETAND; ALSO OF J.F. GIROD, JEANNE P. GIROD, WIFE OF CLEMENT ODONINO, F. CLEMENTINE GIROD, WIFE OF P.F. PERNOISE, AND JEAN MICHEL GIROD, DEFENDANTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 4, 1846.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Eustis, for the appellants, and Mr. Janin, for the appellees.

Mr. Janin, for the appellees.

Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

The conclusions to which we have come in this cause do not require from us any comment upon its facts.

We concur with the learned judge in the Circuit Court, in setting aside the purchases by which Nicholas Girod and Jean Francois Girod became the possessors of their testator's entire estate. But the morality and policy...

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