SMITH v. HUNTER ET AL.


48 U.S. 738 (1849)

7 How. 738

HEZEKIAH SMITH, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. WILLIAM HUNTER, TREASURER OF BUTLER COUNTY, JAMES B. CAMERON, AUDITOR OF BUTLER COUNTY, AND THE PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF THE MIAMI UNIVERSITY.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Schenck, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Vinton, for the defendants in error.


Mr. Justice DANIEL delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of Ohio, prosecuted under the twenty-fifth section of the act to establish the judicial courts of the United States, and arises out of the following facts and proceedings.

By the fourth section of an act of Congress of the 3d of March, 1803, (2 Statutes at Large, 226,) a township of land in the Cincinnati land district was granted to the State of Ohio for the...

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