Ringo v. Binns
Supreme Court of the United States
ON appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kentucky. The facts, as stated in the opinion of the court, were the following: The object of this appeal is to reverse the decree of the circuit court, by which the appellants were ordered to convey to the appellees, by deeds of release, with covenants of warranty against themselves and their heirs, and those claiming under them, all the right, tide, interest and claim which they respectively have to…
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ON appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kentucky. The facts, as stated in the opinion of the court, were the following: The object of this appeal is to reverse the decree of the circuit court, by which the appellants were ordered to convey to the appellees, by deeds of release, with covenants of warranty against themselves and their heirs, and those claiming under them, all the right, tide, interest and claim which they respectively have to lands embraced by a patent of two thousand acres to Charles Binns, Jun. and the heirs, of Timothy Hixon, and their…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wayne
delivered the opinión of the Court.
After stating the case, he proceeded.:
It is contended that the decree is erroneous and should be reversed. In behalf of Ringo it is urged that he has a prior legal title, unaccompanied by any equity of the complainants. . The legal title must rest upon entry, survey, registry and pateqt; and it will be admitted that a legal title cannot be in any one until a patent has been issued ; and further, that all of those requirements to make a complete title, shall have been done without fraud, to give to a' patentee a valid title. If, then, in the course of…
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- Burtis Ringo v. Charles BinnsSupreme Court of the United States · 1836