Hampton's Lessee v. M'ginnis
Tennessee Superior Court for Law and Equity
Ejectment. Plea not guilty. The lessor of the plaintiff claimed under a grant upon a county warrant for 262 acres to Jacob Warmack, dated the 24th of October, 1782. A deed from Warmack to himself was produced. The defendant claimed under a grant to William Richie, upon a county warrant for 300 acres, dated the 18th of November, 1788, describing certain metes and bounds.
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Ejectment. Plea not guilty. The lessor of the plaintiff claimed under a grant upon a county warrant for 262 acres to Jacob Warmack, dated the 24th of October, 1782. A deed from Warmack to himself was produced. The defendant claimed under a grant to William Richie, upon a county warrant for 300 acres, dated the 18th of November, 1788, describing certain metes and bounds. Inman conveyed the same to M'Namee, by deed of the 19th of September, 1789, and M'Namee conveyed to the defendant 230 acres part if the 300 by deed dated the 23d of May, 1793. This cause was lengthily and ingeniously argued by…
1Opinion
In considering the question before the Court, the ideas of DICKINSON, J., 4 Dallas, appendix, upon another occasion, appear to be correct. "That the best way of discovering how far arguments, deduced from resolutions of Congress, can be applied upon this occasion, will be to consider them not separately, but conjointly, as forming a system that existed in force at the time of the transaction." So it seems with respect to the Acts of 1715, c. 27, and c. 38, § 5, Ird. 12, 23. These two acts are so inseparably connected, in the consideration of what is necessary to constitute a title, that we…
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- Stewart v. FosterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1809