Supreme Court of the United States February 14, 1833 (United States v. Percheman)

Mr Chief Justice Marshall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a decree pronounced by the judge of the superior court for the district of East Florida, confirming the title of the appellee to two thousand acres of land lying in that territory, which he claimed by virtue of a grant from the Spanish governor, made in December 1815.