Vick v. Mayor of Vicksburg
Mississippi Supreme Court
APPEAL from chancery. The Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Vicksburg filed their bill in the court of chancery, to quiet their title to a lot of ground designated as Commons and Levee street on the recorded plat of said town, and to enjoin and restrain the appellants from prosecuting several actions of ejectment, pending in their favor against the complainants below, in the circuit court of Warren county, for the recovery of the same tract of land, which, from the upper to…
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APPEAL from chancery. The Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Vicksburg filed their bill in the court of chancery, to quiet their title to a lot of ground designated as Commons and Levee street on the recorded plat of said town, and to enjoin and restrain the appellants from prosecuting several actions of ejectment, pending in their favor against the complainants below, in the circuit court of Warren county, for the recovery of the same tract of land, which, from the upper to the lower end of the city, occupies the entire space between the front row of lots and the Mississippi river. This…
1Opinion of the Court
S. S. Boyd,
(one of the judges appointed to determine the cause,) delivered the opinion of the court.
The bill in this case was filed by the complainants in the superior court of chancery at the last July term, for the purpose of quieting their title to a tract of ground designated as “ commons” and “ Levee street,” on the recorded plat of the town of Vicksburg, and to enjoin and restrain the defendants from prosecuting several actions of ejectment, then pending in their favor, against the complainants in the circuit court of Warren county, for the recovery of the same tract.
A perpetual…
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- Thatcher v. PowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1821
- Livingston v. MayorCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1831
- The Town of Pawlet v. D. CLARK & OTHERSSupreme Court of the United States · 1815
- Griffith v. FrazierSupreme Court of the United States · 1814
- In re MayorNew York Supreme Court · 1829
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