Galloway v. Finley
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the circuit court of the United States, for the western district of Pennsylvania, in the third .circuit: The appellant filed his bill on the 19th of October, 1835, stating, that on the- 11th of March, 1835, he entered into-an article of agree* ment with David Barr, acting as attorney for his wife, Elizabeth Julia . Ann-,-who thereby became a party to the same.
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APPEAL from the circuit court of the United States, for the western district of Pennsylvania, in the third .circuit: The appellant filed his bill on the 19th of October, 1835, stating, that on the- 11th of March, 1835, he entered into-an article of agree* ment with David Barr, acting as attorney for his wife, Elizabeth Julia . Ann-,-who thereby became a party to the same. The agree*, ment stated that Charles Bradford, late of Pennsylvania, obtained for his services as an officer in the Virginia continental line, a land warrant, No! 4467, for 2666 acres of land, which was entered, surveyed,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
delivered the opinion.of the Court.
The-bill alleges that complainant, on the 11th of March, 1835, purchased from Henry R. Finley, and David Barr, who acted' for himself ánd wife, the sister of defendant, Finley, the moiety of two tracts of land.lying in the state of Ohio; one for one thousand two hundred; and the other'for one thousand acres, founded on a warrant for two thorisam1 six hundred and sixty-six and one-third acres, obtained by Ch.a’les Bradford, as an officer in the revolutionary war, in the Virginia continental line. That Finley, and the wife of Bari, were the heirs of their…
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