Ex Parte Smith
Supreme Court of the United States
Petition for a mandamus to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chiee Justice Waite
delivered the opinion of the court.
The relators, citizens of the State of Tennessee, sued Lewis Anderson, also a citizen of that State, Dec. 81, 1873, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee, to recover possession of certain lands in that district to which they claimed title in fee through a certificate of the United States direct tax commissioners, under the “ Act for the collection of direct taxes in insurrectionary districts within the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June 7, 1862, 12 Stat. 422. The…
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