Dundas v. Hitchcock
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. • There were two cases between the same parties, depending upon the same prin-. ciples, and only differing as to the property mortgaged. The notice of one will suffice for both. The plaintiffs in error were the trustees of the Bank of the United States, being the assignees of Cowperthwaite, Dunlap, and Cope, the oilginal trustees.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Alabama. • There were two cases between the same parties, depending upon the same prin-. ciples, and only differing as to the property mortgaged. The notice of one will suffice for both. The plaintiffs in error were the trustees of the Bank of the United States, being the assignees of Cowperthwaite, Dunlap, and Cope, the oilginal trustees. In July, 1838, Henry Hitchcock, of Mobile, Alabama, came to a settlement of many transactions of loans and discounts with the Bank of the U nited States, and was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The respondent, Mrs. Anne Hitchcock, was complainant below, in two bills filed in the Circuit Court of Alabama, claiming her dower in certain property in the city of Mobile, of which her late husband, Henry Hitchcock, was seized in hit lifetime, and of which the appellants, as trustees of the United States Bank, were in possession, claiming under a mortgage given by said Henry.
The answer admits the marriage of' complainant, and the .seizin and death of her husband, and that the appellants hold the property under a deed of mortgage from him; but deny that complainant has any right of dower in…
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