Neilson v. Lagow
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of Indiana, by a writ of error issued under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act. It originally stood in the name of Wilson Lagow, the ancestor of the present defendants in error. The point involved was the construction of the act of Congress, passed on the 1st May, 1820, (3 Stat. at Large, 568,) which forbids land from being-purchased on account of the United States except under a law authorizing such purchase.
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This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of Indiana, by a writ of error issued under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act. It originally stood in the name of Wilson Lagow, the ancestor of the present defendants in error. The point involved was the construction of the act of Congress, passed on the 1st May, 1820, (3 Stat. at Large, 568,) which forbids land from being-purchased on account of the United States except under a law authorizing such purchase. At a preceding term of this court a motion was maeje to dismiss the case for want- of jurisdiction, which is reported in 7 How. 772. A…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Curtis
This case comes here by a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana. The record shows that Lagow, the defendant in error, instituted an action of disseisin in a Circuit Court of the State of Indiana, whereby he sought to recover of Neilson, the plaintiff' in error, a tract of land described in the counts. The tenant having pleaded the general issue, the case was committed to a jury. At the trial, it appeared that Lagow, together with Nathaniel Ewing, John D. Hay, and Caroline Smith, whose title, if any, Lagow is alleged to have afterwards acquired, were in possession of the…
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