Brown v. Gilman
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Massachusetts. This cause was by consent heard upon the bill, answer, and exhibits in the case.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Massachusetts. This cause was by consent heard upon the bill, answer, and exhibits in the case. The material facts were these: In the month of January 179.6, sundry persons, and among them William Wetmore, purchased' of the agents of certain persons in Georgia, called the Georgia Mississippi Company, then in Boston, a tract of land, then in the State of Georgia, and now in the Mississippi Territory, .estimated to contain .11,380,000 acres, at ten cents per acre; which tract the Georgia Mississippi Company had purchased of the State of Georgia, and had received…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
delivered the opihion of the Court. The question to be'decided is, whether, under all the circumstances of this case, the New-England Mississippi Land Company, or Mary Gilman, shall lose the sum awarded by the commissioners to the Georgia Mississippi Company, in satisfaction for the lien that company was supposed to retain' on the lands they sold, for the non*278payment of the notes of William Wetmore, given for the purchase money on his interest in the purchase.
In examining this question, the nature of the contract, the motives of the New-England Mississippi Company, and their acts, are all to…
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