Gray v. Jones
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Missouri
This is a suit for decree for title for about 1,400 acres of land in Nodaway, Atchison, and Holt counties, Missouri. The bill sets out that Hugh B. Sweeny was on March 11, 1857, the owner of certain military bounty land-warrants ; that on March 12 and 13, 1857, be located them on certain lands in controversy in this suit; all these lands were located by Sweeny in bis own name; that on April 13 and August 3, 1857, Hugh B. Sweeny, for a valuable considera-ción, transferred…
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This is a suit for decree for title for about 1,400 acres of land in Nodaway, Atchison, and Holt counties, Missouri. The bill sets out that Hugh B. Sweeny was on March 11, 1857, the owner of certain military bounty land-warrants ; that on March 12 and 13, 1857, be located them on certain lands in controversy in this suit; all these lands were located by Sweeny in bis own name; that on April 13 and August 3, 1857, Hugh B. Sweeny, for a valuable considera-ción, transferred these certificates of location to James S. Phelps; chat the assignments of these certificates of location were duly…
1Opinion of the CourtMcCrary, C. J.
1. The court finds from the evidence that the deeds from Sweeny to Sullivan, from Sweeny to DeBow, and from DeBow to Bowen, mentioned in the bill, were not executed as they purport to have been by the respective grantors, but were forged, and upon the fact so found the court holds as matter of law that the purchasers from the grantees in said deeds acquired no title which a court of equity can protect. Sampeyreac v. U. S. 7 Pet. 222.
2. As to several of the tracts of land claimed by complainants, the point is made that they are not described in the certificates of location, which are the…
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