Bierce v. Pierce
Ohio Supreme Court
This is a Bill in Chancery from the County of Delaware. The leading and material facts in the case are: That about 1800, Enoch Pierce, senior, the father of the defendants, then residing in Berkshire, in Massachusetts, received a number of United States military land warrants in trust for the holders, for the purpose of locating the same, to the amount of 4,000 acres.
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This is a Bill in Chancery from the County of Delaware. The leading and material facts in the case are: That about 1800, Enoch Pierce, senior, the father of the defendants, then residing in Berkshire, in Massachusetts, received a number of United States military land warrants in trust for the holders, for the purpose of locating the same, to the amount of 4,000 acres. When the land was located and patented, the elder Pierce was to convey to each warrant-holder his proportion; and for these services he was to receive one dollar and fifty cents for each hundred acres. He located these warrants…
1Opinion of the CourtBirchard, J.
In this case, our great difficulty has been to ascertain the facts which are controverted in the bill and *545answer. After the lapse of half a century, it is remarkable that a living witness has been found, by either party, capable of throwing much light upon a transaction so ancient. subjects of ordinary occurrence, the memory of few men is to-be trusted after the lapse of over forty years. The patent of the United States, executed in 1802, purports to vest in the elder Pierce the entire legal and equitable estate, in the four thousand acres of land, which is the subject of this litigation.…
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