Doe Ex Dem. Mann v. Wilson
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 Indiana.' It was an ejectment brought by Mann, a citizen of New York, and- Hannah, a citizen of Iowa, against Wilson, to recover sections nine and ten, in township 35, range 4 west, in the county of Baporte, in Indiana.
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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 Indiana.' It was an ejectment brought by Mann, a citizen of New York, and- Hannah, a citizen of Iowa, against Wilson, to recover sections nine and ten, in township 35, range 4 west, in the county of Baporte, in Indiana. The important question involved in the case may perhaps be more distinctly presented to the reader by a chronological order of events than by a recital of the titles offered upon the trial by the plaintiffs and defendant," respéctively. In October, 1835, treaties were…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
By the treaty of October 27, 1832, made by the United States, through commissioners, with the Pottawatomie tribe of Indians of the State of Indiana and Michigan Territory, said .nation ceded to the United States their title and interest in and to their lands in the States of Indiana and Illinois, and the Michigan Territory, south of Grand river.
Many, reservations were' made in favor of Indian villagers jointly, and to individual Pottawatomies. The reservations are by sections, amounting probably to a hundred, lying in various parts of the ceded country: As to" these, the Indian. title…
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