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RUTHERFORD v. GREENE'S HEIRS

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15 U.S. 196 (1817)

2 Wheat. 196

4 L.Ed. 218

RUTHERFORD, v. GREENE'S heirs.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 4, 1817.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Campbell and Mr. Harper, for the appellant, and by Mr. Law and Mr. Jones, for the appellees.

Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the court.

As this case depends entirely on the validity of Greene's title, the court will notice only so much of the record as respects that title.

In the year 1777 the state of North Carolina opened a land-office, for the purpose of selling all the vacant lands east of a line described in the act.

In the year 1780 an act passed, reserving a certain tract of country for the officers and soldiers...

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