This case comes up on an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana.
The case is somewhat complicated and confused, and it will be necessary to state the material facts to be found in it in order to present clearly the legal questions involved, and upon which the decision must depend.
On the 13th March, 1837...
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