SIMS v. IRVINE


3 U.S. 425 (____)

3 Dall. 425

SIMS Lessee versus IRVINE.

Supreme Court of United States.


The CHIEF JUSTICE, on the last day of the term, delivered the opinion of the court as follows:

ELLSWORTH Chief Justice.

It appears that William Douglass, for services rendered, acquired under the King's Proclamation of 1763, a right to 5000 acres of unappropriated land in America; which right he assigned to Charles Sims, the lessor of the Plaintiff below. And although by the terms of the proclamation, the personal application...

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