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Cheraw Gazette And Pee Dee Farmer
Cheraw, Chesterfield County, South Carolina
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In Orange County, New York, Vice Chancellor's Court rules in favor of Mrs. Bell (represented by George Dummer) against New York City Corporation, awarding her Blackwell Island, site of a new penitentiary, valued at nearly half a million dollars. First U.S. case of its kind, involving key legal principles.
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In the Vice Chancellor's Court of Orange Co., New York.—Bell vs. Corporation of City of New York.—In this case George Dummer, Esq. for his mother, Mrs. Bell, has recovered by a decision of the Court of Chancery of Orange county, N. Y., that valuable property called Blackwell Island, near New York City on which the corporation, at a very great expense have recently erected their Penitentiary, and other public works. This island is valued at towards half a million of dollars. We understand very important legal principles are involved in the decision. It is the first case of the kind that has ever been brought before our courts, although we learn that there have been frequent decisions in England under the common law similar to this. We doubt a full report of the case will be published.
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Orange Co., New York
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mrs. bell recovers blackwell island, valued at nearly half a million dollars
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George Dummer, Esq., representing his mother Mrs. Bell, wins a decision in the Vice Chancellor's Court of Orange County, New York, against the Corporation of the City of New York, regaining ownership of Blackwell Island near New York City, where the city has built a penitentiary and other public works at great expense. The case involves important legal principles and is the first of its kind in U.S. courts, though similar to English common law decisions.