Williams v. Wilson
Tennessee Supreme Court
All lands which might escheat after the Cession Act would, of course, escheat to the sovereign power, the government of the United States, until the formation of our Constitution, and afterwards to the State; and were not subject to entry by North Carolina military warrants.
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All lands which might escheat after the Cession Act would, of course, escheat to the sovereign power, the government of the United States, until the formation of our Constitution, and afterwards to the State; and were not subject to entry by North Carolina military warrants. A person in possession of land, claiming it by sheriff’s deed purporting to convey the title of the devisees of an alien, is such a claimant as may file a caveat under 1806,1, 16, and 1807, 2, 47. [See Bugg v. Norris, 4 Y. 329, where this case is cited.] Conveyances to aliens invest them with the title they purport to…
1Opinion of the CourtCatron, J.
The two town lots of one half of an acre each, were granted in a grant of 640 acres to Elisha Baker, in 1787, and conveyed by the grantee to White in 1791.
James White again caused the land to be granted to himself and William Blount in 1791 ; and again to himself in 1803. The three grants cover the lands in controversy, being lots No. 55 and 56, in the town of Knoxville.
On' the 2d day of May, 1794, the lot No. 56 was conveyed in fee by James White to Robert Johnston.
On the 13th June, 1795, the lot No. 55 was vested in Johnston in fee by the deed of John M’Dowell.
At the time these conveyances…
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- The Heirs, Etc., of J.J. Williamson v. R. BuchannanTennessee Supreme Court · 1814