Court Opinion

ID: 9841623
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-22 19:59:56.123923+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:01:23.971266
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• Mr. Justice Wátne
stated that he dissented from the opinion of the Court, delivered by Mr. Justice Baldwin. He was authorized to say -that MK Justice .McKinley concurred with him in opinion,
• The title-to the lots was.in Chancellier at the time of his death. St. Qyr obtained -a title by fraud,- and- by fraud he continued in pos-' session;
Choteau’s claim -is not such as divested the title of Chancellier, according to the Spanish- law.
*471Mr. Justice M£Lean dissented.
Mr. Chief Justice-Ta.net diS not sit-in this cause, having been' of counsel for one of the parties.
This cause came on to be heard on the transcript of the record from the district court of the United States for the district of Missouri; and was argued by counsel. On consideration whereof, it is .now here adjudged, and ordered by. this Court, that the judgment .of the said district court in this caiise be, and the same.is hereby... affirmed, with costs.