Ashley v. Rector
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Pulaski County. Brim and cross-bill determined in the Pulaski Chancery Court, The bill was filed, 4th May, 1850, by Mary W. W. Ashley, as executrix of Chester Ashley, deceased, and Roswell Beebe, against Henry M. Rector, to quiet title, etc., to the north-west fractional quarter of fractional section three, south of the Arkansas river, in tovmship one, north of range twelve west, embraced within the plan of the city of Little Rock.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Pulaski County. Brim and cross-bill determined in the Pulaski Chancery Court, The bill was filed, 4th May, 1850, by Mary W. W. Ashley, as executrix of Chester Ashley, deceased, and Roswell Beebe, against Henry M. Rector, to quiet title, etc., to the north-west fractional quarter of fractional section three, south of the Arkansas river, in tovmship one, north of range twelve west, embraced within the plan of the city of Little Rock. The complainants claim under Chester Ashley, who purchased the land of the State, on the 8th of June, 1838, as part of the five…
1Opinion of the Court
Hon. Thomas Johnson, Special Judge,
delivered the opinion, of the Court.
The first point that we consider necessary and proper to settle in this case, relates to the sufficiency of the location under the New Madrid claim of Cockerham, to constitute an appropriation of the land in controversy. The decision of this question will necessarily depend upon the construction that shall be placed upon the act of Congress, of February 17th, 1815. That act provides that any person owning lands in the county of New Madrid, in the Missouri Territory, according to the extent said county had on the 10th of…
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