Saltmarsh v. Crommelin
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Coosa. Tried before the Hon. Geo. D. Shortridge. Trespass to try titles by William T. Minter, Hiram F. Saltmarsli and Ashley Parker, against Charles Crommelin, tenant in possession.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Coosa. Tried before the Hon. Geo. D. Shortridge. Trespass to try titles by William T. Minter, Hiram F. Saltmarsli and Ashley Parker, against Charles Crommelin, tenant in possession. The plaintiffs below, to make out their title, offered in evidence a patent from the United States to themselves, as the assignees of Isham Bilberry and Samuel Lee, “ for the south-east fractional quarter of fractional section twenty-four, in township eighteen, of range eighteen, in the district of lands subject to sale at Cahabaand then proved that the locus'in quo was once in the…
1Opinion of the CourtGibbons, J.
When this case was before this court on a former occasion, the opinion then pronounced, if we rightly comprehend it, disposes of nearly every question presented by the present record, except one, and that is, whether the defendant is to be considered as holding under color of title, or is he amere trespasser. —Vide Crommelin v. Minter, 9 Ala. 594. In this case, it is decided, 1st, that when an Indian reservation, under the treaty-of 1814 with the Creek Nation, is sold by the Indian, it at once becomes a part of the public domain of the United States, without any act whatever on the part of…
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