GEORGE S. GAINES, FRANCIS S. LYON AND HIS WIFE, SARAH LYON, JAMES M. DAVENPORT AND HIS WIFE, ALETHAN DAVENPORT, GOODMAN G. GRIFFIN AND HIS WIFE, WILLEY ANN GRIFFIN, GEORGE FREDERICK GLOVER, ANN GAINES GLOVER, LOUISA DAVENPORT GLOVER, MARY THOMPSON, AND MARY A. GLOVER, APPELLANTS, v. ISAAC W. NICHOLSON, POWHATAN B. THERMOND, LEWIS B. BARNES, JOHN T. MOSELEY, S. M. GOODE, AND JOHN HILMAN

Citation

50 U.S. 356 (1850)

Decision : 8-0

Justices Participating

• Roger Taney | voted with majority or plurality

• John McLean | voted with majority or plurality

• James Wayne | voted with majority or plurality

• John Catron | voted with majority or plurality

• John McKinley | did not vote

• Peter Daniel | voted with majority or plurality

• Samuel Nelson | voted with majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion

• Levi Woodbury | voted with majority or plurality

• Robert Grier | voted with majority or plurality

Categories

• Land/allotment/grants of land
• Treaties

Case Cited In

• 175 U.S. 1 (1899), JONES v. MEEHAN
• 185 U.S. 373 (1901), MINNESOTA v. HITCHCOCK