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Dade v. Irwin

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided March 15, 1844PublishedCited by 12 opinions

This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, in and for the county of Alexandria, sitting as a court of equity. The case was this. In the years 1824 and 1828 Jane Dade -executed two deeds of trust to one William Herbert, for the purpose of securing a debt which she owed to Thomas Irwin, the deceased.

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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, in and for the county of Alexandria, sitting as a court of equity. The case was this. In the years 1824 and 1828 Jane Dade -executed two deeds of trust to one William Herbert, for the purpose of securing a debt which she owed to Thomas Irwin, the deceased. In 1830, Thomas Irwin, junior, the executor of Thomas Irwin, (who had died in the mean time,) filed a bill against Jane Dade for the sale of the property. Herbert, the trustee, was alleged to be á iunatic, and the bill therefore prayed that a…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, sitting in Alexandria.

In the year 1824, the appellant, Jane Dade, became indebted to Thomas Irwin, the testator, and executed two deeds of trust for the security of the debt. At the November term of the Circuit Court of Alexandria county, 1830, Irwin, the executor, filed his bill to obtain' a decree of the sale of the estate so cónveyed'in' trust' and a decree was made without objection for the sale, the appellant admitting the justice of the claim; and the'original trustee having become insane, William L. Hodgson was…

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  4. Lowden v. Northwestern National Bank & Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1936
  5. Lowden v. Northwestern Nat. Bank & Trust Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1936

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