Spalding v. Chandler
Supreme Court of the United States
EBEOE TO THE SUPEEME OOUET OE THE STATE OE MICHIGAN. The plaintiff in error claimed the land in dispute in this controversy under an alleged preemption entry. The claim of the defendant in error rested upon a patent from the United States. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
Plaintiff in error by a bill in equity filed in the Circuit Court of the county of Chippewa, State of Michigan, sought to have a trust declared in his favor in certain lands at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, at one time a part of what was known as the “Indian Reserve,” which land had been patented by the United States to the defendant, and to have the defendant ordered to execute a conveyance of the legal title.
The facts in the case, as developed upon the trial, were as follows: On June,26, 1820, 7 Stat. 206, the Chippeway tribe’ of Indians ceded to the United States sixteen square miles of…
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