United States v. Percheman
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the superior court for the eastern district of Florida. On the 17th of September 1830, Juan Percheman filed in the clerk’s office of the superior court for the eastern district of Florida, a petition, setting forth his claim- to a tract of land containing two thousand acres, within the district of East Florida, situated at a place called the Ockliwaha, along the margin of the river St John.
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APPEAL from the superior court for the eastern district of Florida. On the 17th of September 1830, Juan Percheman filed in the clerk’s office of the superior court for the eastern district of Florida, a petition, setting forth his claim- to a tract of land containing two thousand acres, within the district of East Florida, situated at a place called the Ockliwaha, along the margin of the river St John. The petitioner stated that he derived his title to the said tract of land under a grant made to him on the 13th day of December 1815 by governor- Estrada, then Spanish governor of East Florida,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
This is an appeal from a decree pronounced by the judge of the superior court for the district of East Florida, confirming the title of the appellee to two thousand acres of land lying in that territory, which he claimed by virtue of a grant from the Spanish governor, made in December 1815. The title laid before the district court by the petitioner, consists of a petition presented by himself to the governor of East Florida, praying for a grant of two thousand acres of land in the place called Ockliwaha. situated on the margins of St John’s river; which be prays for in pursuance of the royal…
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