Bates v. Illinois Central Railroad
Supreme Court of the United States
.Writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. This was ejectment in the Circuit Court brought by Q-eorge C. Bate's against the Illinois Central Railroad Company for a parcel of land called the “ Sand Bar,” now covered with water, and which the plaintiff alleged in his declaration was a part of the north fraction of section 10, town 9, in the- city of Chicago. ' The plaintiff’s title to the north fraction of section ten was…
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.Writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. This was ejectment in the Circuit Court brought by Q-eorge C. Bate's against the Illinois Central Railroad Company for a parcel of land called the “ Sand Bar,” now covered with water, and which the plaintiff alleged in his declaration was a part of the north fraction of section 10, town 9, in the- city of Chicago. ' The plaintiff’s title to the north fraction of section ten was not contested. The section was surveyed by public authority in 1821. This fraction was pre-empted in 1831 by Robert A.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
This cause comes here by writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. The railroad company is sued in ejectment byKinzie’s representatives for land lying under water at the city of Chicago; the end of the road running into Lake Michigan. The controversy depends on the following charge of the court to the jury:
“ By the act of Congress of July 1, 1836, entries of the character of Kinzie’s were confirmed, and patents were to be issued therefor, as in other cases. A patent accordingly issued to Kirizie on the 9fch of March, 1837.- There can be no…
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