Rutherford v. Greene's Heirs
Supreme Court of the United States
This was a bill in chancery, filed m the circuit court for the district of Tennessee, by the appellant, against the heirs of the late Major-General Greene.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
As this case depends entirely on the validity of Greene’s title, the court will notice only so much of the record as respects that title.
In the year 1777 the state of North Carolina opened a land-office, for the purpose of selling" all the vacant lands east of aline described, in the apt.
In the year 1780 an act passed, reserving 'a certain tract of country for the. officers and soldiers of the line of that state.
This act is lost.
In the yéar-1782 an act passed, “ for the relief of the officers and soldiers in the continental line, and fo.r other purposes therein mentioned.” This act • . * ^…
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