GLASGOW v. BAKER

No. 40.

128 U.S. 560 (1888)

GLASGOW v. BAKER.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided December 10, 1888.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Elmer B. Adams and Mr. John W. Dryden (with whom was Mr. M.L. Gray on the brief) for plaintiff in error.

Mr. C. Gibson, Mr. Robert E. Collins, and Mr. Thomas T. Gantt for defendants in error.

Mr. John Flournoy also filed a brief for same


MR. JUSTICE MILLER, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

It will be seen at once that there is really no contest about the claim of the plaintiff, unless the defendants have established some break in the continuity of the title which the United States may have received from France by the treaty of 1803, or unless the exceptions in that treaty of private property take the land in controversy out of that...

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