Fletcher v. Peck grew out of the Georgia legislature's crookedly sale of land in the Yazoo River country in what is now Mississippi to private speculators. The next ...

Fletcher v. Peck, case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1810, involving the Yazoo land fraud. The court ruled that an act of the Georgia.

In Fletcher v. Peck, the Court ruled that Georgia did not have the constitutional authority to revoke a corrupt land sale. Above, an illustration of Georgia State ...