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TRENIER v. STEWART

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101 U.S. 797 (1880)

25 L.Ed. 1021

TRENIER, v. STEWART.

Supreme Court of United States.

April 19, 1880.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Philip Phillips and Mr. W. Hallett Phillips for the plaintiffs in error.

Mr. John T. Morgan and Mr. Thomas H. Herndon, contra.

MR. JUSTICE CLIFFORD delivered the opinion of the court.

Claims to land, when the province of Louisiana was ceded to the United States, were, in many instances, incomplete, arising largely from the fact that the governor of the province, during Spanish rule, never had authority to issue a patent. Laws were accordingly passed by Congress very early after the jurisdiction was transferred, making provision for the adjustment...

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