Kelly's Heirs v. McGuire
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from, the Ciremt Court of Independence Coimty m Chcmeery. Before tbe Hon. A. B. Greenwood, Circuit Judge. Tln'fi cause was argued at tbe January Term, 1854, before the>; Hon. ChRistopheR C. Soott, Judge, and Hon. Sakuel H.. Hemp-stead, Special Judge.
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Appeal from, the Ciremt Court of Independence Coimty m Chcmeery. Before tbe Hon. A. B. Greenwood, Circuit Judge. Tln'fi cause was argued at tbe January Term, 1854, before the>; Hon. ChRistopheR C. Soott, Judge, and Hon. Sakuel H.. Hemp-stead, Special Judge. James Kelly’s beirs. 1. It is submitted, for the heirs of James Kelly, that, upon the death of Cli/nton, the entire estate, personal and real, wliicÉ descended to him from Ms father, Charles Kelly, who acquired it, ascended to Creenb&rry Kelly, his grand father, who was the nearest surviving relation to Chernies, and the nearest, of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Hon. S. H. Hempstead, Special Judge,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.
Whatever may have been tbe original foundation of tbe right of property, it admits of no question tbat its protection, in some shape, is engrafted into tbe jurisprudence of every civilized nation. In most of them, it constitutes an important feature of their organic law. No government, however powerful, and who-ther free or despotic, could long command tbe affections and allegiance of its members, or preserve tbe order and tranquility of civil society, without respecting and seeming this right, and affording adequate…
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