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Coffee Vs. Groover

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Oct 17, 1887

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  11. U.S. 1 (1887) U.S. Supreme Court Coffee v. Groover
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  12. U.S. 1 (1887) Coffee v. Groover
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  13. pleas of matter affecting the legal title or in estoppel only encumber the record and tend to embarrassment. Wade v. Doyle
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  15. of parts of a disputed territory in its possession are valid against the state which had the right, Dela Croix v. Chamberlain
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  16. by treaty, cession, or conquest, the rights of the inhabitants to property are respected and sacred. Rhode Island v. Massachusetts
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  17. Clarke, 8 Pet. 436, 33 U. S. 445 . And the principle applies to the states of this union. Poole v. Fleeger
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  18. public domain before the cession. This principle is asserted in the cases of Page 123 U. S. 10 United States v. Arredondo
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  19. Delassus v. United
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  20. How. 17, and Leitensdorfer v. Webb
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  21. How. 176. In United States v. Percheman
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  22. In December term, 1854, the Attorney General was allowed to intervene on the part of the United States. Florida v. Georgia
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  23. territory did not belong to Spain, though she occupied it and claimed to own it. This point is decided in Henderson v. Poindexter's
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  24. Lessee, 12 Wheat. 530, followed by Hickey v. Stewart
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  25. How. 627, and other cases. In Henderson v. Poindexter
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  26. by this Court on the subject was accurately expressed by Mr. Justice McLean in delivering the opinion in Robinson v. Minor
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  27. decision was invariably against their validity. The first case in which the question arose was that of Foster v. Neilson
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  28. contended for the line of the Perdido, and had finally taken full possession of the country. The case of Foster v. Neilson
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  29. was followed in the subsequent cases of Garcia v. Lee
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  30. United States v. Philadelphia
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  31. Montault v. United
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  32. How. 437, all of which are referred to, and the history of the controversy is given, in United States v. Lynde
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  33. is dropped that the existence of a government de facto would have any influence on the decision. In Garcia v. Lee
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  34. the territory of another, and if a proposition so evident needed confirmation, it will be found in the case of Poole v. Fleeger
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  35. The case of Poole v. Fleeger
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  36. were not rightfully made because they were originally beyond their territorial boundary. The case of Poole v. Fleeger
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  37. grant is a dictum of Mr. Justice Baldwin in delivering the opinion of the Court in the case of Rhode Island v. Massachusetts
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  38. as the authority to make it was derived from the legislative power only. The same objection was overruled in Penn v. Baltimore
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  39. and in Poole v. Fleeger
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  40. U. S. 31 already cited in relation to Spanish grants in Mississippi and West Florida and to the case of Poole v. Fleeger
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  41. authority referred to, 12 Wheat. 25 U. S. 600 -601, it is a mere dictum of Mr. Justice Trimble in De la Croix v. Chamberlain
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  42. clearly inconsistent with the decision made at the same term in Henderson v. Poindexter's
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  43. No such question was raised in that case, and Poole v. Fleeger
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  44. U.S. Supreme Court Coffee v. Groover
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  45. Wade v. Doyle
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  46. Dela Croix v. Chamberlain
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  47. and Leitensdorfer v. Webb
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  48. In United States v. Percheman
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  49. of the United States. Florida v. Georgia
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  50. Henderson v. Poindexter's
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