WILLIAM KINNEY AND JAMES J. MECHIE, EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES OF ROBERT PORTERFIELD, DECEASED, v. MERIWETHER L. CLARK, WILLIAM P. CLARK, GEORGE R. H. CLARK, AND JEFFERSON R. CLARK, A MINOR BY THE AFORESAID GEORGE R. H. CLARK HIS GUARDIAN, HEIRS A

Citation

43 U.S. 76 (1844)

Decision : 7-0

Justices Participating

• Roger Taney | did not vote

• Joseph Story | voted with majority or plurality

• John McLean | voted with majority or plurality

• Henry Baldwin | voted with majority or plurality

• James Wayne | voted with majority or plurality

• John Catron | voted with majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

• John McKinley | voted with majority or plurality

• Peter Daniel | voted with majority or plurality

Categories

• Indian Country
• Indian Title/Occupancy
• Land/allotment/grants of land
• Treaties

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