Scull v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe United States for tbe Western District of Missouri. Tbis is an appeal from a decree dismissing, on demurrer, tbe bill of tbe complainants, who, with tbe exception of one, their alienee, claim to be tbe heirs-at-law of Captain Don Joseph Yalliere, who died intestate in tbe city of New Orleans in tbe year 1799. Tbe suit was brought under the act entitled “ An Act for the final adjustment of private land-claims in tbe States of Florida,…
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Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe United States for tbe Western District of Missouri. Tbis is an appeal from a decree dismissing, on demurrer, tbe bill of tbe complainants, who, with tbe exception of one, their alienee, claim to be tbe heirs-at-law of Captain Don Joseph Yalliere, who died intestate in tbe city of New Orleans in tbe year 1799. Tbe suit was brought under the act entitled “ An Act for the final adjustment of private land-claims in tbe States of Florida, Louisiana, and Missouri, and for other purposes,” approved June 22, 1860. 12 Stat. 85. Tbe claim in this case is founded on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Millee
The history of the relation of the government of the United States to the claims for lands asserted under rights derived from the Spanish and French governments, prior to the cessions of Louisiana and Florida to our government, as it is found in the treaties, the acts of Congress, and the judicial decisions of the American tribunals, is given very fully and with accuracy in the opinion of this court in the case of The United States v. Lynde (11 Wall. 632), and will be referred to now without repeating it. The necessity and the policy of the act of 1860 are there fully considered. It declares…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- United States v. LyndeSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
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