UNITED STATES v. HERNANDEZ


33 U.S. 485 (____)

8 Pet. 485

THE UNITED STATES, APPELLANTS v. JOSEPH H. HERNANDEZ.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr Call, for the United States; and by Mr White, for the appellee.


Mr Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the judge of the superior court for the eastern district of Florida, declaring the claim of the appellee to twenty thousand acres of land to be valid.

His title commences with the following decree, made by governor Coppinger on the 18th of November 1817.

"In attention to what the interested party sets forth and represents, and in virtue of the powers which...

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