Rector v. Gibbon
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was a suit in equity commenced in Garland Circuit Court in Arkansas, and removed under the Removal Act to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. This was a suit in equity commenced in Garland Circuit Court in Arkansas, and removed under the Removal Act to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The bill alleged that the plaintiif went into possession, in 1839, of a tract of land within the Hot Springs Reservation in Arkansas, under color of title, derived from the location of a New Madrid claim, and made valuable improvements on it, and continued in possession until dispossessed in 1876 by the receiver…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This is a suit in equity, brought by the plaintiff to charge the heirs-at-law of David Ballantine, as trustees of certain real property Avithin the Hot Springs Reservation in the State of Arkansas, and compel them to convey it to him. The question for determination is Avhether under the act of Congress of March 3d, 1877, providing for the sale of part of the reservation, they were entitled to purchase the property in preference to him.
From the protracted litigation to Avhich it has given rise, the Hot Springs Reservation is famous in the history of land titles of the country. Early in the…
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