Langdeau v. Hanes
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois; the ease being thus: Langdeau brought ejectment, August, 1872, against Hanes for a piece of ground, which before our Revolution was part of the French and Canadian settlement of St. Vincents (now Vincennes), and, as such, part of the Northwestern Territory conveyed in 1788, by authority of the State of Virginia, who then claimed it, to the United States, under an express stipulation— “That the French and…
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Error to the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Illinois; the ease being thus: Langdeau brought ejectment, August, 1872, against Hanes for a piece of ground, which before our Revolution was part of the French and Canadian settlement of St. Vincents (now Vincennes), and, as such, part of the Northwestern Territory conveyed in 1788, by authority of the State of Virginia, who then claimed it, to the United States, under an express stipulation— “That the French and Canadian inhabitants and other set-tiers of . . . St. Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have professed themselves…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
Although the territory lying north of the Ohio River and west of the Alleghanies, and extending to the Mississippi, was claimed by Virginia previous to 1776 to be within her chartered limits, it was not reduced to her possession until the war of the Revolution. Previous to that period numerous settlements had been formed within that portion which at present comprises the States of Indiana and Illinois, consisting principally of French inhabitants from Canada, who held the lands they occupied under concessions from French . and English authorities. The possessions and titles of these • peóple…
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