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HENDERSON ET AL. v. STATE OF TENNESSEE

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51 U.S. 311 (1851)

10 How. 311

13 L.Ed. 434

THOMAS HENDERSON AND THOMAS CALLOWAY, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. THE STATE OF TENNESSEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

January 7, 1851.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was argued by Mr. Bibb and Mr. Eaton, with whom was Mr. Green, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Andrew Erving and Mr. Stanton, for the defendants in error.

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

The first question to be decided in this case is, whether the court has jurisdiction.

The case is brought before us by a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee. It appears by the record, that the decision turned upon the title of Andrew Miller to the lands in question, under the treaties of 1817 and 1819, with the Cherokee nation. Andrew...

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