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DODDRIDGE v. THOMPSON

22 U.S. 469 (1824)

9 Wheat. 469

DODDRIDGE v. THOMPSON and others.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 16, 1824.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

This cause was argued by Mr. Clay, for the plaintiffs, and by the Attorney-General, for the defendants.

Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.

Both parties in this cause claim under grants made by the United States, in that tract of country which was reserve by Virginia, out of her cession to Congress, for the purpose of satisfying the claims of her officers and soldiers on continental establishment. The reserve was at first dependent on a deficiency of good land, to satisfy those claims, in a territory reserved for the same objects in Kentucky...

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