Irwin v. Dixion
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States fot the District of Columbia, and-County of Alexandria. It was- a bill filed by the Dixions to restrain the appellant from erecting an inclosure in what they claimed to be a public highway, in the town of Alexandria, by which the said highway was obstructed, and the ancient lights of the appellees, looking into the said highway, were darkened; and for an abatement of the nuisance.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States fot the District of Columbia, and-County of Alexandria. It was- a bill filed by the Dixions to restrain the appellant from erecting an inclosure in what they claimed to be a public highway, in the town of Alexandria, by which the said highway was obstructed, and the ancient lights of the appellees, looking into the said highway, were darkened; and for an abatement of the nuisance. The court granted a perpetual injunction, defining the limits of the highway, and requiring the appellant to remove the nuisance. The material.facts…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woodbury
This was an appeal from a decree in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia for the County of Alexandria.
The proceedings on which the decree was entered had been in substance as follows.
The Dixions, September 6, 1844, filed a bill in chancery, setting out their purchase, in October, 1843, of a certain warehouse in Alexandria, “with all the rights-and appurtenances to the same belonging,” and that they had since been in quiet possession of the same; that this warehouse “ fronts, on the east, the River Potomac, and the doors and windows of said front open on a strand, which has been used…
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