Mr. Chief Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an action of ejectment; and the plaintiffs in error claim title to the premises under a contract of sale made by Morales, the Spanish Intendant at Pensacola, with a certain William McVoy, for twenty arpents of land on the west side of the River Mobile, bounding on the river; which contract was afterwards confirmed by an act of Congress.
The contract with McVoy was made in 1806. He subsequently...
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