Brown v. Pierce
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Nebraska Territory. Brown filed his bill in September, 1860, in the court below against three persons, Pierce, Morton, and Weston, alleging that in the spring of 18’57, he settled upon and improved a tract of land near Omaha; that be erected a bouse on the tract; and-continued to . occupy it until August 10th, 1857, when -he entered the tract under the pre-emption laws of the United States; that Pierce claimed the land by virtue of the laws of…
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Error to the Supreme Court of Nebraska Territory. Brown filed his bill in September, 1860, in the court below against three persons, Pierce, Morton, and Weston, alleging that in the spring of 18’57, he settled upon and improved a tract of land near Omaha; that be erected a bouse on the tract; and-continued to . occupy it until August 10th, 1857, when -he entered the tract under the pre-emption laws of the United States; that Pierce claimed the land by virtue of the laws of an organization known as .the Omaha Claim Club;, that this organization, consisting, of very numerous armed men, sought…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Representations of the complainant were, that on the tenth of August, 1857, he acquired a complete title to the premises described in the bill of complaint, under the pre-emption laws of the United States, and that thereafter, on the same day, he was compelled, through threats of personal violence and fear of his life, to convey the same, without any consideration, to the principal respondent. Framed on that theory, the bill of complaint alleged that the first-named respondent was at that time a member of an unlawful association in that Territory, called the Omaha Claim Club, and that he,…
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