McClung v. Silliman

délivered the opinion of the Court.

This case presents no ordinary group of legal questions. They exhibit a striking specimen of the involutions which ingenuity may cast. about legal rights, and. an instance of the growing pretensions of some of the State Courts over the exercise of the powers of the general government.

The plaintiff in error, who was also the plaintiff below, supposes hipiseif entitled to a pre-emptive interest in a. tract of land in the State of Ohio, and claims of the register of the land office of the United States, the legal acts and documents upon which such rights are…