Nicks' Heirs v. Rector
Supreme Court of Arkansas
This was a suit in Chancery, determined in Crawford Circuí in September, 1841, before the Hon. Richard C. S. Brown, one of the Circuit Judges.
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This was a suit in Chancery, determined in Crawford Circuí in September, 1841, before the Hon. Richard C. S. Brown, one of the Circuit Judges. Rector filed his bill in 1839, in which he stated, that, in December, 1828, or early in January, 1829, William Duval and Peter A. Cams, then partners, rented of William Morse a log-house, then and for some time before occupied and in the possession of Morse, standing on the north-east fractional quarter of section 8, in T/8 N., R. 32 W., in tlie county of Crawford, which tract Morse was then occupying and living on, improving, and cultivating, as an…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Lacy, J.
(The Chief Justice not sitting in the case).
The complainant in this case sets up title to the land described in his bill, as the legal owner of a pre-emption right of Duval & Cams, under the act of Congress of 29th of May, 1830, which was rejected, and the entry refused by the Register and Receiver of the Land-office at Batesville, by reason of a prior fraudulent location of the same land, by John Nicks, made by virtue of a donation claim, granted to Andrew Matthews, upon which a patent had issued, and conveyed by Matthews in fee to the heirs of Nicks. The respondents…
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