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GOODTITLE v. KIBBE

50 U.S. 471 (1850)

9 How. 471

JOHN GOODTITLE, EX DEM. JOHN POLLARD, WILLIAM POLLARD, JOHN FOWLER AND HARRIET, HIS WIFE, LATE HARRIET POLLARD, HENRY P. ENSIGN AND PHEBE, HIS WIFE, LATE PHEBE POLLARD, GEORGE HUGGINS AND LOUISA, HIS WIFE, LATE LOUISA POLLARD, JOSEPH CASE AND ELIZA, HIS WIFE, LATE ELIZA POLLARD, HEIRS AND LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF WILLIAM POLLARD, DECEASED, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. GAIUS KIBBE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Phillips and Mr. Coxe, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Campbell, for the defendant in error.

Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff in error to recover a lot of ground in the town of Mobile, in the State of Alabama. The plaintiff claimed title under an inchoate Spanish grant, dated, December 12, 1809, and an act of Congress confirming this title, passed July 2, 1836, and a patent from the United States, dated March 15, 1837, which issued...

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