Court Opinion

ID: 7385011
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-29 00:14:52.881437+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:21:30.989827
License: Public Domain

By the Court.—
The legal title of this land was unquestionably in M’Culloch on the 4th July, 1776, Michael having only an equitable right, in the assertion of which a Court of Equity would have aided him upon his paying the purchase money. It was therefore rightfully the subject of confiscation as the property of M’Culloch, and was accordingly confiscated and vested in the State, from whom the Plaintiff derives his title. The extent of the Defendant’s claim upon the justice of the State, or how far a Court of Equity would interfere against the present Plaintiff, on the ground of notice, it is neither necessary nor proper that we should decide, upon the present occasion.