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| Coffee v. Groover,
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, October 17, 1887, Decided
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Overview: Plaintiffs brought an action of ejectment for land in Florida situated near the boundary line between Florida and Georgia. Plaintiffs claimed title to the land under a patent issued by the United States. Defendants claimed title to the same land through a grant issued by Georgia at a time when Georgia claimed that the land was within its territory. The boundary dispute between Florida and Georgia was eventually settled, and the land in dispute was determined to be a part of Florida. The Supreme Court of the state of Florida found for plaintiffs, concluding that Georgia's grant of the disputed territory was valid notwithstanding the settlement under which the territory in which the land was situated was determined to have been part of Florida. The Court reversed, determining that the rule followed by the Florida Supreme Court did not apply to cases of disputed boundaries in relation to titles created by a sovereign that did not rightfully have possession of the property. Georgia's grant failed because it never had title in the land. The settlement was not a cession of territory by Georgia but was simply the correction of the boundary line between the states.
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