James M'Donald's Heirs v. Smalley
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the circuit court, of the United' States-for the-d.istrfet of Ohio.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
delivered tk opinion of the-Court.
This suit was brought in the court of the United States for the seventh circuit, and district of Ohio,- to obtain a- convey-. anee for land which the defendants hold by a senior patent,, and which the plaintiffs claim under a prior entry. The bill was dismissed by the circuit court, arid the plaintiffs have appealed to this court.
Serious doubts exist respecting the validity of the entry under which the claim has been made; and several points have-been discussed at the bar. It is unnecessary to decide more than one of these questions, because that is decisive…
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