Morehouse v. Phelps
Illinois Supreme Court
This action was originally brought against one Bradner Smith, the tenant in possession of certain lots in the city of Galena, holding under Dickenson B. Morehouse, the administrator of one ilobert P. Guyard, deceased. The said More-house became the co-defendant in the court below, and brings this case into this court by appeal.
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This action was originally brought against one Bradner Smith, the tenant in possession of certain lots in the city of Galena, holding under Dickenson B. Morehouse, the administrator of one ilobert P. Guyard, deceased. The said More-house became the co-defendant in the court below, and brings this case into this court by appeal. The declaration of the plaintiff in the court below was filed on the 29th day of November, A. D. 1851, and he sought to recover the possession of the undivided half of lots 8 and 9, on Water street, in the city of Galena. This case was tried in the court below on the…
1Opinion of the CourtCaton, J.
This is the same case which was before us in 15th Ill. R. 572, under the title of Phelps v. Smith, and it is brought here again, as the only channel through which it may be taken to tlie supreme court of the United States, whose prerogative it is, to give a final and authoritative construction, to all acts of congress. If we have misconstrued the meaning of the words, “legal representatives,” as used in the acts of congress under consideration, it will afford us pleasme to be set right by that court, and we shall be happy to afford every facility for talcing the case to that tribunal.…
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