Legal Opinion

Burgess v. Gray

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 18, 1854PublishedCited by 23 opinions

This case was brought up from the Supreme Court of- the State of Missouri, by a writ of -error issuéd under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act. The facts of the case are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney

This was a suit brought by petition in the Circuit Court of ■Jefferson county, in the State of Missouri, by the plaintiff in error, against the defendants.

“ The petition sets forth, in substance, that John Jarrott, alias Gerrard, in 1780, with the consent and permission of the officers of the Spanish government, settled upon a tract of land in what is now Jefferson county, in the State of Missouri, and that he continued to inhabit and cultivate it until about 1796, when he was driven off by the Indians. •' His son Joseph succeeded him in the possession of the lánd, and continued to reside…

2Cited by23 opinions

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