Supreme Court of Louisiana March 15, 1827 (Dufau v. Degruys)

Matthews, J.

delivered the opinion of the court. This suit is brought to recover a tract of land which was purchased by one Deflechier, as owner of the front tract on the Mississippi, in pursuance of a preference granted by the laws of the United States to front proprietors, in purchasing land immediately in the rear of their possessions; and which was sold by him to the defendant, in whose