Lomax v. Pickering
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. This was .an action of ejectment brought by Aquila II. Pickering against John A. Lomax and William Kolze to recover possession of two parcels of.-land in Cook County, Illinois, which had'originally been granted by the United States to certain Indians under the treaty of Prairie du Chien, of July 29, 1829. This case was before this court upon a former hearing, Pickering v. Lomax, 145 U. S. 810, the report of which contains…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. This was .an action of ejectment brought by Aquila II. Pickering against John A. Lomax and William Kolze to recover possession of two parcels of.-land in Cook County, Illinois, which had'originally been granted by the United States to certain Indians under the treaty of Prairie du Chien, of July 29, 1829. This case was before this court upon a former hearing, Pickering v. Lomax, 145 U. S. 810, the report of which contains ' a full statement of the facts, which need not be here repeated. Upon that hearing the judgment of the Supreme Court of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
The common source of title in this case was. Alexander Bobinson, an Indian, to whom the lands were patented by President Tyler, December 28, 1S43, under the provisions of Art. IY of the treaty of Prairie du Ohien, 7 Stat. 320, subject to the following proviso : “ But never to be leased or conveyed by him,” (the grantee,) “ them, his or. their heirs, to any person whatever, without the permission of the President of the United States.” The lands were subsequently allotted and set off to Joseph Robinson, one of the patentee’s children, by a decree in partition of the Cook County Court of Common…
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