Parker v. Rule's Lessee
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR, to the Circuit Court of the district of West Tennessee, in-an action of ejeqtment, • The facts of the case were thus stated by1 the chief justice in delivering the opinion of the Court: This was an ejectment brought by the Defendant in error m the Circuit Court of the United States for district of West Tennessee.' The plaintiff below claimed under a patent regularly issued by the proper guthority.
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ERROR, to the Circuit Court of the district of West Tennessee, in-an action of ejeqtment, • The facts of the case were thus stated by1 the chief justice in delivering the opinion of the Court: This was an ejectment brought by the Defendant in error m the Circuit Court of the United States for district of West Tennessee.' The plaintiff below claimed under a patent regularly issued by the proper guthority. The Defendant, made litle under a deed, from the collector of the district, reciting a sale of the land as being forfeited by the non payment of and conveying the same to the-purchaser, (in…
1Opinion of the Court
Marsh axe, Ch. J.
ai'ier stating the facts of the case., delivered the opinion of the Court hs follows:
" It is admitted that if the preliminary Requisites of the law have not been complied with, the collector could have no authority to sell, and the conveyance can pass' no title. On the part of the «Plaintiff in error it is insisted that these requisites have been performed, andthat the instruction given by the judge is erroneous. The instruction is that the sale was unauthorized and. void.
It was proved in the cause that the proprietors of the land in controversy were non-residents of the…
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