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SCOTT v. CAREW

No. 52.

196 U.S. 100 (1905)

25 S.Ct. 193

49 L.Ed. 403

SCOTT v. CAREW.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 3, 1905.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Henry W. Anderson and Mr. Francis P. Fleming, with whom Mr. William H. Lamar, Mr. George H. Lamar, Mr. Francis P. Fleming, Jr., Mr. Beverley B. Mumford, Mr. Eppa Hunton, Jr., and Mr. E. Randolph Williams were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Edward R. Gunby, Mr. Wm. Wade Hampton and Mr. Horatio Bisbee for appellees.

MR. JUSTICE BREWER, after making the foregoing statement of facts, delivered the opinion of the court.

The vital question in this case is whether Hackley could claim the benefit of the act of 1826, in reference to the tract in controversy. Prior to that act he was wrongfully in possession of the tract, and could have been summarily removed by order of the President. (Act of March 3, 1807.) His dispossession was by authority...

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