THE UNITED STATES v. LAWTON ET AL.


46 U.S. 10 (____)

5 How. 10

THE UNITED STATES, APPELLANT, v. JOSEPH LAWTON, EXECUTOR OF CHARLES LAWTON, MARTHA POLLARD, HANNAH MARIA KERSHAW, WIFE OF JAMES KERSHAW, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued at the preceding term by Mr. Mason (then Attorney-General), for the United States, and by Mr. Yulee, for the appellee, and held over to the present term under a curia.

Mr. Mason, for the United States, made four points.


Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

We are called on to ascertain the correctness of an opinion and decree pronounced by the Superior Court of East Florida, by which there was confirmed to certain claimants, through James Darley, a tract of land containing 23,040 acres. The only question proposed to be examined regards a location of the land by the decree. Darley solicited the governor of East Florida, in...

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