Finley v. Williams
Supreme Court of the United States
‘ THIS was an appeal from the decree of the Cireuit Court for the district of Kentucky, in a suit in .chancery, brought by Finley to compel Williams and vvho liaii t!l? elder patent, to cirnvey pertain lands to the Complainant whiph he .claimed by virtue of a >ior settlement, The cause was argued by Pope, for the Appellants, m^d Ciay, for the Apjiellecs, on the of' February, .1813, in the absence of the reporter.
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
delivered .the opinion of the Court as follows:
This cause depends on the lalul law of Virginia, whicb is .also the land law of Kentucky, that state having formed a part of Virginia when the act was passed in which the titles of both Plaintiff and Delendant originated. Both parties claim the land in controversy by virtue of improvements made previous to •the first day of'January, 1778, which improvements were recognized by the act generally termed “ the previous title law,” and gave the persons malting them pre-emption of one thousand acres of land, to include the improvement,…
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