Hardy v. Harbin
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern California
This was a suit in equity to charge the defendants [James M. Harbin and others] as trustees of certain real property in California, and to compel a transfer of the title. It came before the court on demurrer to the bill.
1Opinion of the Court
FIELD, Circuit Justice.
This is a suit on the equity side of the court to charge the defendants as trustees of certain real property, situated in the county of Yolo, and to enforce a transfer of the title to the complainants, Alexander Hardy and Ellen Hardy, the wife of Thomas Botham. Alexander and Ellen claim to be the only surviving children and heirs at law of one. John Hardy, deceased; and the case presented by their bill is briefly this:
Hardy, their father, was a native of Upper Canada, and in 1824 intermarried in that province with one Nancy Wright, a citizen of the United States. Three…
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