Hicks v. Rogers

8 U.S. 165 (____)

4 Cranch 165

HICKS ET AL.

v.

ROGERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Bradley, (of Vermont,) for the plaintiffs, contended.

THIS was a case certified from the circuit court for the district of Vermont, the judges of that court,[*] being opposed in opinion upon the question, whether the plaintiffs, devisees of a tract of land to be equally divided between them, could, under the will, support a joint action of ejectment. The declaration did not set forth the title of the plaintiffs, otherwise than by the following averment — "Of which tract or parcel of land, the plaintiffs " on the…