Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1837
Marlatt v. Silk - 36 U.S. 1 (1837) U.S. Supreme Court Marlatt v. Silk, 36 U.S. 11 Pet. 1 1 (1837) Marlatt v. Silk 36 U.S. (11 Pet.) 1 ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA Syllabus Ejectment. A tract of land situated in that part of the State of Pennsylvania which, by the compact with the State of Virginia of 1780, was acknowledged to be within the former state was held under the provisions of an Act of Assembly of Virginia passed in 1779, by which actual bona fide settlers, prior to 1778, were declared to be entitled to the land on which the settlement was made, not exceeding four hundred acres. The settlement was made in 1772. Of this tract, in the year 1786, a survey was made and returned into the Land Office of Pennsylvania, and a patent was granted for the same. The title set up by the defendants in the ejectment was derived from two land warrants from the Land Office of Pennsylvania dated in 1773, under which surveys ...
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Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge - 36 U.S. 420 (1837) U.S. Supreme Court Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge, 36 U.S. 11 Pet. 420 420 (1837) Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge 36 U.S. (11 Pet.) 420 ERROR TO THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MASSACHUSETTS Syllabus In 1650, the Legislature of Massachusetts granted to Harvard College the liberty and power to dispose of a ferry by lease or otherwise from Charlestown to Boston, passing over Charles River. The right to set up a ferry between these places had been given by the governor under the authority of the Court of Assistance, by an order dated November 9, 1636, to a particular individual, and was afterwards leased successively to others, they having the privilege of taking tolls regulated in the grant; and when, in 1650, the franchise of this ferry was granted to the college, the rights of the lessees in the same had expired. Under the grant, the college continued to hold the ferry by its le...
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