Stockton v. Williams
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from the Court of Chancery. A report of the case in that Court, will be found in Walk. Ch. R. 120. The bill was filed in the Court of Chancery, June 11, 1840, and stated that, by a treaty between the United States and the Chippewa Indians, concluded on the 24th of September, 1819, Mokitchenoqua, alias Nancy Smith, (and since her intermarriage with Alexander D. Crane, Nancy Crane,) became entitled to a section of land near the Grand Traverse of the Flint river.
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Appeal from the Court of Chancery. A report of the case in that Court, will be found in Walk. Ch. R. 120. The bill was filed in the Court of Chancery, June 11, 1840, and stated that, by a treaty between the United States and the Chippewa Indians, concluded on the 24th of September, 1819, Mokitchenoqua, alias Nancy Smith, (and since her intermarriage with Alexander D. Crane, Nancy Crane,) became entitled to a section of land near the Grand Traverse of the Flint river. That she was of Indian descent, and the reputed daughter of Jacob Smith, an Indian trader, and that she had always been known…
1Opinion of the CourtWhipple, J.
The bill in this cause was filed under the provisions of an act, entitled “An act relative to proceedings in Chancery,” approved March 28, 1840. The first section of the act is in the following words ; “Beit enacted, &c. that any person having the possession and legal or equitable title to lands, may institute a suit against any other person or persons setting up a claim thereto, and if the complainant shall be able to substantiate his title to such land, the defendant shall be decreed to release to the complainant all claim thereto,” &c. S. L. 1840, p. 127.
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