Citations
- 126 N.Y. 122
Full opinion text
Andrews, J.
This is an action of ejectment brought to recover one hundred acres of land in the county of Erie.
The general facts are undisputed. The land in question is a part of a tract of more than 87,000 acres or 135 square miles of land situate in.Erie and other counties in the western part of the state, which prior to August 31, 1826, and for a period extending back to about the middle of the seventeenth century, had been in the occupation of the Seneca Nation of Indians, claiming dominion by conquest from other aboriginal tribes.
On the day mentioned (August 31,1826), at a public council