Kennedy's Executors v. Lessee of Hunt
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was bi ought up from the Supreme Court of the • S-tate of Alabama, by a writ of error, issued under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act. The facts in the case áre sufficiently set forth in the opinion of .the court. ' 'The points made by the counsel for the plaintiffs in error were the following.
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This case was bi ought up from the Supreme Court of the • S-tate of Alabama, by a writ of error, issued under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act. The facts in the case áre sufficiently set forth in the opinion of .the court. ' 'The points made by the counsel for the plaintiffs in error were the following. The action was ejectment brought by plaintiffs below in the Circuit Court for Mobile county, to recover a piece of ground and ground covered with water, on Mobile River. Plaintiffs gave in evidence the Spanish Orange Grove grant of 1807 to Forbes & Co., and the act of Congress…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
This case comes here by writ of error to the Supreme Court of Alabama, under the twenty-fifth section of - the Judiciary Act of 1789, and the first question made by the defendants in error is, whether any matter presented by the record will authorize .this court to exercise jurisdiction under the twenty-fifth section. And to ascertain how far, if at all, the powers of this court can be called into exercise, the facts and the laws bearing on them must be stated in -something of detail ; as in this case, in common with many others, it is found much more difficult to settle the question of…
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