Case ID: tenn_22/html/0266-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Peck & Gillespie vs. Cunningham.
    1. Where it was provided by compact between the United States and the Cherokee tribe of Indians that all land lying-within certain calls for certain natural objects should be ceded to the United States, and that commissioners appointed by the United States and by the tribe should run the line, and such commissioners did run the line, andit was subsequently acquiesced in by the parties: Held, that in a conflict of titles arising- upon the question as to the true location of said boundary between citizens, the line so run and acquiesced in, must be regarded as the true boundary.
    
      % Grants of land made by the State of Tennessee to which the title of the Cherokee nation had not been extinguished at the time of the grant, are void, and convey no title to the grantee.
    Ejectment for five thousand acres of land lying in Monroe county; judgment for the defendant in circuit court. Plaintiffs appealed in error.
    
      Crozier, for plaintiffs.
    
      VcmDyke, for defendant.
   Per curiam.

The facts in this record do not present a different case from that before this court in this case at the July term, 1840. We adhere to the opinion then given. .

Note. — For a full report of this case see 2 Humph. 19,