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HEIRS OF DE ARMAS v. UNITED STATES

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47 U.S. 103 (1848)

6 How. 103

12 L.Ed. 361

THE HEIRS OF C. AND M. DE ARMAS, APPELLANTS, v. THE UNITED STATES.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 25, 1848.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was a petition in the District Court relating to land, the circumstances of which it is unnecessary to state any further than they are referred to in the opinion of the court, as the case went off upon a point of jurisdiction. It was argued by Mr. S.S. Prentiss and Mr. Perin, for the appellants, and Mr. Clifford (Attorney-General), for the United States.

Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is brought here by appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana.

It appears that a petition was filed by the appellants, claiming an inchoate title to certain lands, under Spanish grants, which they alleged the United States were bound to perfect; but that these lands had been sold by the United States to divers...

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