Shively v. Bowlby
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE OREGON. The original suit was in the nature of a bill in. equity, brought June 8, 1891, by John Q. A. Bowlby and W. W. Parker against Charles W. Shively and wife, in the Circuit Court for the county of Clatsop and State of Oregon, to quiet the title to lands below high water mark in the city of Astoria.
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OE OREGON. The original suit was in the nature of a bill in. equity, brought June 8, 1891, by John Q. A. Bowlby and W. W. Parker against Charles W. Shively and wife, in the Circuit Court for the county of Clatsop and State of Oregon, to quiet the title to lands below high water mark in the city of Astoria. The case, as appearing by the record, was as follows: On and before May 20, 1854, John M. Shively and wife were the owners of a donation land claim, as laid out and recorded by him under the act of Congress of September 27, 1850, c. 76, (9 Stat. 496,)…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
This case concerns the title in certain lands below high water mark in the Columbia Eiver in the State of Oregon; the defendant below, now plaintiff in error, claiming under the' United States, and the plaintiffs below, now defendants in error, claiming under the State of Oregon ; and is in substance this : James M. Shively, being the owner, by title obtained by him from the United States under the act of Congress of September 27, 1850, c. 76, while Oregon was a Territory, of a tract of land in Astoria, bounded north by the Columbia Eiver, made a plat of it, laying it out into blocks and…
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