Gaines v. Nicholson
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern' District of Mississippi. It was an appeal from a decree by the equity side of the court, granting a perpetual injunction upon the appellants, who were plaintiffs in an ejectment suit then pending on the law side of the court.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern' District of Mississippi. It was an appeal from a decree by the equity side of the court, granting a perpetual injunction upon the appellants, who were plaintiffs in an ejectment suit then pending on the law side of the court. In the second article of the supplement of Dancing Rabbit Creek treaty (7 Stat. at Large, 340), made on the 27th of September, 1830, there is this reservation— “ Also, one section is. allowed t.o the following persons, to wit, Middleton Mackey, Wesley Train, Choclehomo, Moses Foster, D. W.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of the State of Mississippi.
The bill was filed by the appellees in the court below against the defendants, to enjoin proceedings in an action of ejectment brought to recover possession of the sixteenth section of township twelve, range eighteen east, County of Kemper, State of Mississippi.
By the twelfth section of an act of Congress, passed March 3, 1803,' entitled “ An act regulating the grants of land, and providing for the disposal of the lands of the United States south of the State of…
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