Cannon v. White

The plaintiff is appellant from a judgment of the District Court rendered, on a verdict of a jury, adversely to his claim.

This is an action for the recovery of six hundred and forty acres of land, situated on Red River, which the plaintiff, as assignee of Edward McLaughlin, by a regular chain of title, claims by right of occupation, habitation, and cultivation, prior to, and on, the twenty-second February eighteen hundred and nineteen, under the provisions oí the Act - of Congress approved March third eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled “ An Act providing for the examination of the…