Supreme Court of the United States March 25, 1878, 391 (McMicken v. United States)

Mb.. Justice Bbadley

delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.

Tbe claim to lands in this case originated as follows: On tbe 17th of December, 1798, William Coleman, an inhabitant of New Feliciana, within the bounds of the present State of Louisiana, east of tbe Mississippi River, applied to tbe Spanish governor-general for a grant of six hundred and ten arpents of land, for a plantation and