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Thredgill v. Pintard - 53 U.S. 24 (1851) U.S. Supreme Court Thredgill v. Pintard, 53 U.S. 12 How. 24 24 (1851) Thredgill v. Pintard 53 U.S. (12 How.) 24 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS Syllabus Where a settler upon the public lands had a preemption right to them and sold them to a person who again sold them to a third party, the original vendor has a lien upon the land for the balance of the purchase money still due, and can enforce it by a bill in chancery notwithstanding the vendee has taken out a patent in his own name under a subsequent preemption law. On 12 April, 1814, Congress passed an Act, 3 Stat. 122, § 5, giving a right of preemption to settlers upon certain portions of the public lands, under certain conditions, one of which was that the Indian title should have been extinguished. A person by the name of Jane Matthers, claimed a right of preemption, under this act, to the southeast quarter of section one, towns...
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Ballance v. Forsyth - 54 U.S. 18 (1851) U.S. Supreme Court Ballance v. Forsyth, 54 U.S. 13 How. 18 18 (1851) Ballance v. Forsyth 54 U.S. (13 How.) 18 ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Syllabus On 15 May, 1820, Congress passed an Act, 3 Stat. 605, for the benefit of the inhabitants of the Village of Peoria by which every person claiming a lot in the village was to give notice to the register of the land office, whose report was to be laid before Congress. On 3 March, 1823, Congress passed another Act, 3 Stat. 786, granting to each of the French and Canadian inhabitants, and other settlers according to the report, the lot upon which they had settled, and directed the surveyor of the public lands to make a plat of the lots, for which patents were to be issued to the claimants. This survey and plat were not made until April and May, 1837. In November, 1837, a person who was not a settler purchased at the land office at private entry th...
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McCormick v. Gray - 54 U.S. 26 (1851) U.S. Supreme Court McCormick v. Gray, 54 U.S. 13 How. 26 26 (1851) McCormick v. Gray 54 U.S. (13 How.) 26 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS Syllabus Where two partners assigned all their partnership property to a trustee with certain instructions how to dispose of it, and afterwards agreed between themselves to Page 54 U. S. 27 appoint an arbitrator, recognizing in their bonds the directions given to the trustee, the arbitrator had no right to deviate from these directions and make other disposition of the property. The reason given by the arbitrator, that he preferred creditors before awarding a certain sum to one of the partners, is insufficient. Nor had the arbitrator a right to depart in any particular from the arrangement of the property which the partners had designated in their deed to the trustee. McCormick was the inventor of "McCormick's patent Virginia Reaper," and being desirou...
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Howard v. Ingersoll - 54 U.S. 381 (1851) U.S. Supreme Court Howard v. Ingersoll, 54 U.S. 13 How. 381 381 (1851) Howard v. Ingersoll 54 U.S. (13 How.) 381 APPEAL FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA AND ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF GEORGIA Syllabus In 1802, when Georgia ceded her back lands to the United States, she had jurisdiction over the whole of the Chattahoochee River, from its source to the thirty-first degree of north latitude. The rule is that where a power possesses a river and cedes the territory on the other side of it, making the river the boundary, that power retains the river unless there is an express stipulation for the relinquishment of the rights of soil and jurisdiction over the bed of such river. When Georgia ceded to the United States all the land situated on the west of a line running along the western bank of the Chattahoochee River, she retained the bed of the river and all the land to the east of the line above men...
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