Ryan v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT. OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. Ejectment. The ease, as stated by the court, was as follows: This action of ejectment was brought to recover certain lands in the village of Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa County, Michigan, of which the United States claims to be the owner in fee, and the possession of which is alleged to be wrongfully withheld from .the government by the defendant, Thomas Eyan.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT. OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN. Ejectment. The ease, as stated by the court, was as follows: This action of ejectment was brought to recover certain lands in the village of Sault Sainte Marie, Chippewa County, Michigan, of which the United States claims to be the owner in fee, and the possession of which is alleged to be wrongfully withheld from .the government by the defendant, Thomas Eyan. They are described in a deed from Eyan and wife to the United States, of date December 18, 1886, and recorded in the proper local office on the 25th…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
No question is made in this case, as in view of the decisions of this court and the statutes of Michigan there could not properly be, in respect to the right of the United States, by purchase, to acquire the premises in dispute for the purposes of fortification and garrison expressed .in the act of Juty 8, 1886. Kohl v. United States, 91 U. S. 367 ; United States v. Jones, 109 U. S. 513; Van Brocklin v. State of Tennessee, 117 U. S. 151, 154; 2 Howell’s Anno. Stats. Mich.-§§ 5202, 5203.. Nor can it be doubted that what was done'by the Secretary of War and by other officers of the government…
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