Wagner v. Baird
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, sitting as a court of equity. The case, as set forth by the complainants, is contained tn the following extract from the brief of Mr. Ewing, one of their solicitors.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, sitting as a court of equity. The case, as set forth by the complainants, is contained tn the following extract from the brief of Mr. Ewing, one of their solicitors. The bill, which was filed on the 18th day of November, 1840, charges, that on or about the 21st of November, 1783, Brigadier-General Robert Lawson obtained of the State of Virginia a military land-warrant, No. 1,9? I, for 10,000 acres of land .due him for military services in the Revolutionary war, in the Virginia line on Continental…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice.GRIER
delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellants in this case filed their bill in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, claiming a certain tract of land in possession of the defendants, and praying a decree for. the title and possession of the same.
The bill sets forth that Robert Lawson, under whom com plainants claim, had received for his services as an officer in the Revolutionary war a military warrant (No. 1,921) for ten thousand acres of land, which, before the 4th of June, 1794, was located in the Virginia military district, in tracts of one…
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