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
Decision : 8-0
Majority Opinion: Samuel Nelson
Justices Participating
- John Catron | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote no opinion
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John McKinley | other
- John McLean | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote no opinion
- James Wayne | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote no opinion
- Levi Woodbury | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote no opinion
- Peter Daniel | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote no opinion
- Roger Taney | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote no opinion
- Robert Grier | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote no opinion
- Samuel Nelson | voted with the majority or plurality , justice wrote an opinion
Categories
* Land/allotment/grants of land
Subopinions
Case Cited In
- 175 U.S. 1 JONES v. MEEHAN, 1899
- 185 U.S. 373 MINNESOTA v. HITCHCOCK, 1901