Doe Ex Dem. Governeur's Heirs v. Robertson
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was an action of ejectment brought in the Circuit Court of Kentucky, in which the lessors of-the plaintiff gave in evidence a patent from the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the lands in controversy, lying in Kentucky, to Robertus S. Rrantz, then an alien, bearing date the 11th of October, 1784, founded on a land-office treasury warrant.
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THIS was an action of ejectment brought in the Circuit Court of Kentucky, in which the lessors of-the plaintiff gave in evidence a patent from the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the lands in controversy, lying in Kentucky, to Robertus S. Rrantz, then an alien, bearing date the 11th of October, 1784, founded on a land-office treasury warrant. They also gave in evidence a certificate of naturalization of the said Rrantz, in (he State of Maryland, on the 8th of November, 1784, and an act of the legislature of Kentucky, passed in 1796, entitled, “ An act for the relief of Robertus Samuel Brantz,”…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Johnson
This cause comes up from the Circuit Court of Kentucky, upon a difference of opinion certified from that Court.
The case was this: Robertus S. Brantz, through whom the plaintiffs make title, obtained, on the 11th of October, 1784, two grants from the Commonwealth of Virginia, comprising, together, ten thousand acres of land lying in Kentucky.
One Duncan Rose, through whom the defendants make title, obtained a similar grant, of- the date of December 2d, 1785, covering a part of the same land.
Robertus Brantz, at the date of his patent, was an alien, but became naturalized in Maryland on the 8th…
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