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1 City of Carondelet vs. United States of America: Statement of the Case and Argument on the Part of the Claimant 1875

handle is hein.trials/adft0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IN THE U. S. COURT OF CLAIMS. CITY OF CARONDELET, } UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.1 Statement of the Case and Argument on the parl of the Claimant. This chse has been already once argued before this Court. In January, 1861, I had the honor of submitting a reply to the printed answer of the solicitor to the argument of the leading counsel for the claimant, (the present Posmaster-Gen- eral of the United States.) My reply was hasty, and, though perhaps sufficiently responsive to the objections indicated by the solicitor, did not satisfactorily embrace the whole subject. It is absolutely impossible to grasp the question presented by the record without some familiarity with the past history of the Spanish Province of Louisiana-its laws, usages and cus- toms-the treaty by which the United States acquired it-the manner in which Congress proceeded to fulfill the obligations of the treaty of cession, and the interpretations of the various acts of Congress on this subject by the Supreme Courts of Missouri and the United States. On a review of my argu- ment, made in 1861, it has occurred to me that I committed the error of supposing that matters of a provincial nature-ne- cessarily familiar to any one who has been during the last twenty years largely engaged in the trial of land causes at St. Louis- were equally interesting to the profession at large; and that I did not lay the foundation of my argument as carefully as I should have done. I applied myself to the objections taken by my adversary, but did not demonstrate,

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