Court Opinion

ID: 9416587
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 19:49:48.990247+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:21:29.820684
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice NELSON.
I concur in the judgment of the court upon the ground that, though the 10th section of the act of March 3,1811, had the effect to prevent the title of Missouri to this land from vesting, until the final decision by congress upon the claim of Vallé and others, yet the act of May 24,1828, confirming lands to Vallé and others, operated as such final decision, and, by its true construction, excepted out of the confirmation so much of the land as was included in section sixteen, the public surveys of the township having been made before the passage of the last-mentioned act. I do not know that'the opinion of the court is intended to go further than this. If it does, I do not assent thereto.
Mr. Justice CURTIS concurred with Mr. Justice Nelson.
Mr. Justice GRIER also concurred with Mr. Justice Nelson.