Willison v. Watkins
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the circuit court of the district of South Carolina. An action of trespass fo try titles was brought in the circuit court of South Carolina, on the 20th of April 1822, by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in this court, for the recovery of six hundred acres of land situated on the Savannah river. The title claimed by the plaintiff below and the evidence are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
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ERROR to the circuit court of the district of South Carolina. An action of trespass fo try titles was brought in the circuit court of South Carolina, on the 20th of April 1822, by the defendant in error, against the plaintiff in this court, for the recovery of six hundred acres of land situated on the Savannah river. The title claimed by the plaintiff below and the evidence are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Oh the trial in the circuit court the defendant proved that Samuel Willison, his father, had possession of the land in 1789, and cultivated it till the period of his death in…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baldwin
delivered the. Opinion of the Court.
This wás an action of trespass tqtry titles, brought in. 1822, in the circuit court of the' United States for the district of South Carolina, by Watkins against Willison* for a. tract of land containing six hundred acres, on the Savannah river. This land was originally granted to James Parsons, who conveyed to Ralph Phillips, .whose estate was confiscated by an act of assembly of South Carolina, and vested in five commissioners appointed by the legislature of that átate. The five commissioners acted in execution of the'law, but before, any conveyance was…
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