Wright v. Mattison
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the circuit ¡ court of the United States for the district of Illinois. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
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This case was brought up by writ of error from the circuit ¡ court of the United States for the district of Illinois. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. Mr. Browning said that he felt some embarrassment in consequence of the decision of this court in Moore v. Brown, 11 How. 434; but he thought that a different construction had since been given to the statute by the supreme court of Illinois, in Irving V. Brownell, 11 Illinois, 402, 414. These cases were then' discussed. Wright also claimed under an auditor’s deed in 1833, which was within the protection of the act of 1835, and…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel
The questions determined by the circuit court, whose decision we are called on to review, arose upon the construction of two statutes of the State of Illinois,' which limit the right of action against the possessors of lands, held by purchasers in virtue of sales and conveyances under the authority of the State, for the non-payment of taxes.
■ The provisions of the statutes in question are as follow:--
January 17,1835. Sect. 1. “ That, hereafter, no person who now has, or hereafter may have, any right of entry into any lands of which any person may be possessed by actual residence thereon,…
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