Lessee of Hickey v. Stewart
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit. Court of the United States, for the southern district of Mississippi. It was an ejectment brought by Hickey’s lessee against the defendants, as the heirs of Robert Starke, for two thousand acres of land in the state*of Mississippi. The facts in the' case are fully -set forth in the opinion of the court.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit. Court of the United States, for the southern district of Mississippi. It was an ejectment brought by Hickey’s lessee against the defendants, as the heirs of Robert Starke, for two thousand acres of land in the state*of Mississippi. The facts in the' case are fully -set forth in the opinion of the court. The question was, whether or not the court below erred, in permitting to be read in evidence, on the part of the defendants, the record of a former chancery suit between the same parties, in which the court had decreed that all the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKINLEY
This case is brought before the court by a writ of error to the Circuit Court for the southern district of Mississippi.
The plaintiffs brought, an action of ejectment against-the defend-, ants in the court below; and upon the trial, the plaintiffs read in evidence, to the jury, the' copy of a plat and certificate of survey, signed by Charles Trudeau, royal surveyor of the province of'Louisiana, for .two thousand acres of land, French measure; and a patent, issued by the Spanish governor-of that province, thereupon, to James Mather, dated the 3d of April, 1794; and a deed- of conveyance from…
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