UNITED STATES v. McKEE ET AL.


91 U.S. 442 (____)

UNITED STATES v. McKEE ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was submitted on printed arguments by Mr. Solicitor-General Phillips for the United States, and by Mr. William Penn Clarke, for the claimants.

Mr. Clarke, contra.


MR. JUSTICE MILLER delivered the opinion of the court.

The claim of the State of Virginia to dominion over that region of country called the Territory North-west of the Ohio River, which is now filled with a population of many millions and divided into five States of the Union, was not undisputed in the days when that State was a province of Great Britain. The French had numerous settlements there; and the government of Great...

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