Levi v. Thompson
Supreme Court of the United States
The commissioners under the act of the 3d of March, 1837, amendatory of the act entitled “ An Act for laying off the Towns of Fort Madison,” &c., approved July 2d, 1836, confirmed unto Alexander Levi and John Thompson, as tenants in common, the right of purchase, by preemption, of lot No. 68, in the town of Dubuque, being of the first class, containing seventeen one hundredths of an acre.
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The commissioners under the act of the 3d of March, 1837, amendatory of the act entitled “ An Act for laying off the Towns of Fort Madison,” &c., approved July 2d, 1836, confirmed unto Alexander Levi and John Thompson, as tenants in common, the right of purchase, by preemption, of lot No. 68, in the town of Dubuque, being of the first class, containing seventeen one hundredths of an acre. The lot was entered in the land-office, and the receiver’s receipt given to Levi and Thompson for the purchase money, on the 1st of April, 1840. It appears that William Chilson and Joel Campbell had…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
The only question raised by the plea tings in this cause, .and it seems to us the only one argued at its hearings in the District and Supreme Courts of Iowa, was, whether the lot, for which Levi and Thompson hád á preemption certificate, which had been entered and paid fori by them, was or was not liable to be sold upon execution'issued üpon a judgment rendered against them previous to'a patent having been issued for the land by the government of the United States’.' Their right to a preemption purchase of the lot was acquired under the act of the 2d of July, 1836, ch. 262, entitled ££ An Act…
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