Bonner v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Court of Claims; the case being this : The State of Virginia, during the Revolutionary war, promised bounty lands to her troops, on Continental establishment, and at an early day set apart for their benefit a tract of country within the limits of the present State of Kentucky, which it was supposed at the time would be sufficient for the purpose.
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Appeal from the Court of Claims; the case being this : The State of Virginia, during the Revolutionary war, promised bounty lands to her troops, on Continental establishment, and at an early day set apart for their benefit a tract of country within the limits of the present State of Kentucky, which it was supposed at the time would be sufficient for the purpose. Recognizing, however, that this reservation might prove insufficient to satisfy the claims of these troops, Virginia, in ceding, March 1st, 1784, to the United States the territory beyond the Ohio River, reserved all the lands lying…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Davis
If the position of the counsel of the United States, that the Court of Claims has no authority to hear a case of this character, ne well taken, we are relieved of the necessity of de ciding the merits of the controversy.
The claimant insists that there was no power to establish Ludlow’s line as the true boundary, and exclude entries on the west side of it, as Virginia did not assent to this action on the part of Congress, and as it is demonstrable that this line does not include all the lands between the two rivers.
If this position be correct, this claim is based on the theory that the United…
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