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

Majority Opinion: Samuel Nelson

Justices Participating

• John Catron | voted with the majority or plurality

• John McKinley | other

• John McLean | voted with the majority or plurality

• James Wayne | voted with the majority or plurality

• Levi Woodbury | voted with the majority or plurality

• Peter Daniel | voted with the majority or plurality

• Roger Taney | voted with the majority or plurality

• Robert Grier | voted with the majority or plurality

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

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