Morrow v. Whitney
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin. This is an action of ejectment brought in the Brown County Circuit Court, Wisconsin, by Whitney and Baker, for the possession of a tract of land, consisting of ninety-four acres and a fraction of an acre, situated in the borough of Fort Howard, in that, county'and State.
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Error to the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin. This is an action of ejectment brought in the Brown County Circuit Court, Wisconsin, by Whitney and Baker, for the possession of a tract of land, consisting of ninety-four acres and a fraction of an acre, situated in the borough of Fort Howard, in that, county'and State. On the. trial, the plaintiffs deraigned title to the premises from one Pierre Grignon, to whom a patent ■ of the United States was issued June 2, 1870. The défendant Morrow set up an adverse possession of the premises in himself, and parties through whom he deriyed his…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
The act of Feb. 21, 1823, 3 Stat. 724, after reviving and continuing in-force certain previous acts for the adjustment of land claims in the Territory of Michigan, which then included Wisconsin, provided, in its fifth section,.that- every person who, on the 1st of July, 1812,. was a resident at Green Bay, or at other places named, and had then occupied and cultivated a tract of land within either of those settlements, or had occupied a tract of laSTd formerly cultivated by him, and had continued to submit to the authority'of the United States, should be confirmed, in the tract thus occupied…
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