Sims Lessee v. Irvine
Supreme Court of the United States
. Error from the Circuit Court for the PennfylvaniaDiftrieh An ejectment being inilituted in the inferio¡ Court, by the Lef-fee of Sims vs. Irvine, the Jury found a hecial' verdidt, upon which judgment was rendered for the Plaintiff, by confent, and this writ of error was brought to fettle the title. The parts of the fpecial ver'didt material to the points in controverfy were, in fubftance, as follows. Plaintiff’s Tit,le.
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. Error from the Circuit Court for the PennfylvaniaDiftrieh An ejectment being inilituted in the inferio¡ Court, by the Lef-fee of Sims vs. Irvine, the Jury found a hecial' verdidt, upon which judgment was rendered for the Plaintiff, by confent, and this writ of error was brought to fettle the title. The parts of the fpecial ver'didt material to the points in controverfy were, in fubftance, as follows. Plaintiff’s Tit,le. “ The Jury find that the premifes in difpute was called Mon-tour’s Iiland, fituated in the river Ohio, on the fouth-eaft fide, within the original limits of the Virginia…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chief Justice,
on the laft day of the term, delivered the opinion of the court as follows:
Fllsworth Chief JuJlice., Itappears that William Doug-lafs, for fervices rendered, acquired under the King’s Proclamation of 1763, a right to 5000 acres 6f unappropriated land in America; which right he affigned to Charles Sims, the leffor of the Plaintiff below. ' And although by the terms of the proclamation, the perfondl application of Douglafs was fequifite to obtain a land warrant on the faid right, yet the laws of Virginia, paffed fubfequent to her independence, difpenfed with fuch perfonal…
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