Legal Opinion
Orr v. Hodgson
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 10, 1819PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
17 U.S. 221 (____)
4 Wheat. 221
ORR
v.
HODGSON and Wife, et al.
Supreme Court of United States.
February 18th, 1819. The cause was argued by Jones, for the defendants and respondents no counsel appearing for the appellant.
March 11th. STORY, Justice, delivered the opinion of the court.
The whole merits of this cause rest upon the question, whether the defendants, Portia Hodgson, and Cornelia Hopkins, took an estate in fee-simple, in one moiety of the land stated in the bill, by descent, as nieces and heirs of Lucy Paradise, widow of John Paradise, upon her death in 1814. If they did, then the…
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