McGoon v. Scales
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Wisconsin; the ease, or the only parts of it, which the court deemed it necessary to notice, being thus: McGoon brought ejectment against Scales in the court below for a piece of land in Wisconsin Territory, which the United States had granted to one Gear. Both parties claimed under Gear.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Wisconsin; the ease, or the only parts of it, which the court deemed it necessary to notice, being thus: McGoon brought ejectment against Scales in the court below for a piece of land in Wisconsin Territory, which the United States had granted to one Gear. Both parties claimed under Gear. The defendant Scales’s title, which it will most conduce to clearness to consider first, was thus: On the 2d of November, 1842, Gear and wife conveyed the land in question to James Campbell as trustee of the State Bank of Illinois, and though the patent from the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
delivered thé opinion of the court
The shortest and most satisfactory mode of showing the reasons for our judgment is to examine the title of defendant, which the jury were told was the true one.
If the attachment proceedings conveyed a good title, it must prevail; and we proceed to an examination of some of the objections to it.
1. It is claimed that the land was sold for State taxes in April, 1849, and that the title under that sale became vested in plaintiff.
The answer to this is, that the land was then owned by the United States and was not subject to State taxation, the sale to Gear having…
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