McCoy v. Rhodes
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity! It was a bill filed, by McCoy against Rhodes and wife, under the following circumstances.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity! It was a bill filed, by McCoy against Rhodes and wife, under the following circumstances. On the 6th of December, 1839, Rhodes purchased in his own name from theUnited States, under the preemption law of 1838, and entered at the land-office at Ouachita, Louisiana, the following parcel of land: N. W. quarter of section 29, township 10 north, range 10 east, containing 160-j-o^r acres; and paid for the same $1.25 per acre, making in the whole $200.25. ..On -the next day,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
McCoy recovered a judgment against Rhodes, in a State court of Louisiana, for the sum of $1,546, on the 24th of February, 1840 ; and on the 7th of March following this judgment, was recorded in the mortgage office of Concordia parish. The bill seeks to subject certain lands in possession of Rhodes to satisfy the judgment. . Three of the traqts were entered as United States lands, in the name of Eli Montgomery, but which the bill, alleges were the property of Rhodes, and covered by Montgomery’s title to prevent Rhodes’s creditors from reaching them. This is directly denied by the answer, and,…
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