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ROBINSON ET AL. v. MINOR ET AL.

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51 U.S. 627 (1851)

10 How. 627

13 L.Ed. 568

MERRITT M. ROBINSON AND MARGUERITE HIS WIFE, AURORE GAYOSO, FERNANDO GAYOSO, AND FELICITE GAYOSO, APPELLANTS, v. WM. J. MINOR, JAMES C. WILKINS, AND HENRY CHOTARD, EXECUTORS OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF KATHARINE MINOR, DECEASED, FRANCES CHOTARD, KATHARINE L. WILKINS, AND WM. J. MINOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 29, 1851.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Bullard, for the appellants, and Mr. J. Mason Campbell, for the appellees.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This case involves the title to a tract of one thousand arpents of land adjoining the city of Natchez.

On the 10th of September, 1794, a grant was obtained for this land from the Baron de Carondelet, Governor-General of Louisiana, by Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, who resided in Natchez. He settled on Margaret Watts, his future wife, the same tract of land, and indorsed...

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