VILLALOBOS v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Superior Court of East Florid a. . It was argued at the December term, 1847, and dismissed for want of jurisdiction, and is reported in 6 Howard, 81. It was afterwards reinstated on the docket of this court by act of Congress, approved 20th July, 1848. The appellants, who were the petitioners^in the court below, on the 28th day of May, 1829, filed their petition in the Superior Court for the Eastern District of, Florida, under the act of Congress…
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This was an appeal from the Superior Court of East Florid a. . It was argued at the December term, 1847, and dismissed for want of jurisdiction, and is reported in 6 Howard, 81. It was afterwards reinstated on the docket of this court by act of Congress, approved 20th July, 1848. The appellants, who were the petitioners^in the court below, on the 28th day of May, 1829, filed their petition in the Superior Court for the Eastern District of, Florida, under the act of Congress dated the 28th of May, 1828, which gave authority to that court to adjudicate claims to land embraced by the treaty of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
In October, 181?, Coppinger, Governor of Florida, was applied to by Villalobos for leave to build a saw-mill on Trout Creek, at a proper site for a mill there existing; with a corresponding right to five miles square of land, or an equivalent, for a competent supply of timber; on which application the Governor decreed as follows : —
■ “ Taking into consideration the benefit and utility which would result to the Province in its improvement, if what Don José Argote Villalobos proposes should be accomplished, it is granted to him, without prejudice to a third person, that he may build a water…
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