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PATTON'S LESSEE v. EASTON

14 U.S. 476 (1816)

1 Wheat. 476

PATTON'S Lessee v. EASTON.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 21, 1816.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued at February term, 1815, by Humphries and Jones, for the plaintiff in error, and by P.B. Key and Swann, for the defendant, and was continued for advisement to the present term.

MARSHALL, Ch. J., delivered the opinion of the court.

The legislature of North Carolina, while Tennessee was a part of that state, passed an act establishing the town of Nashville, and vesting 200 acres of land in trustees, to be laid off in lots, and sold, and conveyed in the manner prescribed by the act. On the 1st of July, 1784, subsequent to the passage of the act establishing the town, the trustee executed a deed regularly conveying the lot, for a moiety of which...

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