Christmas v. Russell
Supreme Court of the United States
Richard Christmas, of Kentucky, on 30th November, 1859, sold to one Lyons, of Mississippi, an estate there, and received in consideration therefor his promissory notes, each for $16,666, payable to him the said Richard or bearer, with interest, with a mortgage ou the estate.
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Richard Christmas, of Kentucky, on 30th November, 1859, sold to one Lyons, of Mississippi, an estate there, and received in consideration therefor his promissory notes, each for $16,666, payable to him the said Richard or bearer, with interest, with a mortgage ou the estate. These notes subsequently (May, 1866) passed into the. hands of H. H. Christmas, also of Kentucky, the son of Richard by bis first wife, who, in the following June, had a settlement and compromise with Lyons, who paid,a certain sum in cash, and for the remainder executed his two promissory notes in favor of said H. H.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Swayne
delivered the opini of of the court.
Two questions have been argued and are presented for our consideration. They are:
Whether the residence of the parties as disclosed in the record was such as gave the court below jurisdiction of the case? and
Whether William Yerger and Warren P. Anderson had such a lien, by equitable assignment, upou the fund in controversy as warranted the decree appealed from.
The solution of these questions requites a brief statement of the case as it appears in the record
Richard Christmas held three notes of Lyons payable to himself, all dated November 30th, 1859, each for…
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