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LESSEE OF FRENCH AND WIFE v. SPENCER ET AL.

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62 U.S. 228 (1859)

21 How. 228

16 L.Ed. 97

LESSEE OF WILLIAM C. FRENCH AND WIFE, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. WILLIAM H. SPENCER, JUN., JOSEPH SPENCER, AND ANNA A. SPENCER.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 31, 1859.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Thompson for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Bennett for the defendants in error.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

Silas Fosgit obtained a warrant for three hundred and twenty acres of land as a Canadian volunteer in the war of 1812 with Great Britain. This warrant he caused to be located in the Indiana Territory, June 3, 1816, on the land in dispute. On the twenty-eighth day of that month he conveyed the land to William H. Spencer, who died in possession of the same; it descended...

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