Pinson v. Ivey
Tennessee Supreme Court
This cause was argued at a previous term of the court, before Judges Whyte and Catron (Peck, Judge, being disqualified from sitting, having decided the cause in the court below.) At that time no judgment was given, — ■ Judges Whyte and Catron disagreeing in opinion.
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This cause was argued at a previous term of the court, before Judges Whyte and Catron (Peck, Judge, being disqualified from sitting, having decided the cause in the court below.) At that time no judgment was given, — ■ Judges Whyte and Catron disagreeing in opinion. The cause was certified to the Governor under the provisions of the act of 1829, ch. 96, who appointed Nicholas P. Smith Esq. of Franldin a special Judge to determine the case in conjunction with Judges Whyte and Catron. At the present term, it was again argued by Overton, Miller and Balch, for tlie appellants, and Washington for…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, Special Judge.
Complainant, David Ivey, al *298leges in his Lili, thatNorth Carolina has issued to the pre-sidentand trustees of the University of said State, amili-tary warrant for one hundred and fifty acres of land, to be laid off within the limits of land reserved by law for the officers and soldiers of the continental line of said State, which warrant recites, “that it was for the services of David Ivey (a balance) a musician in the line aforesaid, in the revolutionary war, who died in the service of the United States, or since the close of said war, without issue or heir, and whose…
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