Poole v. Lessee of Fleeger
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Tennessee. John Fleeger and others, the defendants in error, instituted an action of ejectment, in 1S32, to the' September term of the circuit court of the United States, for the district of West Tennessee, to recover a tract of land containing two thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven acres, lying in Montgomery county, in the state of Tennessee, and lying south of “Walker’s line,” the. established…
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IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Tennessee. John Fleeger and others, the defendants in error, instituted an action of ejectment, in 1S32, to the' September term of the circuit court of the United States, for the district of West Tennessee, to recover a tract of land containing two thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven acres, lying in Montgomery county, in the state of Tennessee, and lying south of “Walker’s line,” the. established boundary line' between the state of Kentucky and the state of Tennessee, andmorth. of a line called “ Mathews’ line,”…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
This is the case of a writ of error to the judgment of the circuit court of the United States for the district of West Tennessee. The original writ was an ejectment; brought by Fleeger and others, (th now defendants in error,) against Poole and others, (the now plaintiffs in error,) to recover a tract of land containing 2,727 acres in Montgomery county, in Tennessee, lying south of Walker’s line, so called; which constitutes the present boundary line between the states of Kentucky and Tennessee; and north of Mathew’s line, so called, which is exactly now in latitude 36° 30' north; which by…
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