Wilson v. Mason
Supreme Court of the United States
These were writs of error to the district court of the United States, for the district of Kentucky, upon cross caveats for the same tract of land.
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These were writs of error to the district court of the United States, for the district of Kentucky, upon cross caveats for the same tract of land. The caveat of Wilson v. Mason originated in the supreme court for the district of Kentucky in 1785, while Kentucky was a part of the commonwealth of Virginia, and the record states, “ that heretofore, viz. at a supreme “ court for the district of Kentucky, held at Danville in the “ said district, in the month of March, 1785, came George “ Wilson and caused a certain caveat to be entered against “ George Mason, which is in the following words, viz.…
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THIS is a writ of error to a judgment of the court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, rendered on a caveat, and is governed by the land laws of Virginia.
In the year 1779 the legislature of that commonwealth opened a land office and offered for sale, with some reservations, so much of that tract of country lying within its boundaries south-east of the river Ohio as was then unappropriated: a part of which now constitutes the state of Kentucky.
Every person who would pay at the rate of forty pounds for one hundred acres into the treasury of the state, became…
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