Legal Opinion

Carr v. Duval

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 17, 1840PublishedCited by 64 opinions

ON appeal from the Court of Appeals for the Territory of Florida. The case is fully stated in the opinion of the Court.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron

In October 1825, William Harris, of Montgomery, Alabama* made his will, devising to his two sons, William and Stephen, the tract of land in. controversy ; lying on Lake Jackson, in Florida. Stephen and William, at their father’s death were both minors; and William soon after died, leaving two brothers and three sisters, who are his heirs; and two of whom were infants when this bill was filed, and two of them married women.- The land was unimproved and undip ded. In the fall of 1835, William A. Carr, the complainant desired to purchase the land, and applied to Stephen W; Harris for the…

2Cited by64 opinions

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  4. Noonan v. BradleySupreme Court of the United States · 1870
  5. Hennessy v. WoolworthSupreme Court of the United States · 1888

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