Mayor of Mobile v. Emanuel
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error, from the- Supreme Court of the state of Alabama, under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act of 1789. The facts in the ease were these : • On the 26th of September, 1807, the. Spanish governor of Florida granted to John Forbes a tract of land immediately adjacent to what is now the city of Mobile, and indeed constituting a part of it.
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This case was brought up by writ of error, from the- Supreme Court of the state of Alabama, under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act of 1789. The facts in the ease were these : • On the 26th of September, 1807, the. Spanish governor of Florida granted to John Forbes a tract of land immediately adjacent to what is now the city of Mobile, and indeed constituting a part of it. The grant was founded upon, and confirmatory oí) an older one issued to Richardson in 1767, by the British government, then in possession of the country. The land was upon the west side of the river Mobile. In…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN
This cause is brought to this court. by a writ of error, to the Supreme Court of Alabama.
An action of trespass to try the title to a certain lot or piece of ground in the city of Mobile, was comménced by the plaintiffs ■against the defendants, in the Circuit Court' of the state. Issue being joined, a jury'were empannelled, who rendered a verdict of not guilty. As the right of the plaintiffs was asserted, exclusively, under an act of Congress, and the decision being against that right, the plaintiffs, having excepted to certain rulings of the court on the trial, prosecuted this writ of error,…
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