Legal Opinion
Dirst v. Morris
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 11, 1872PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
81 U.S. 484
20 L.Ed. 722
14 Wall. 484
DIRST
v.
MORRIS.
December Term, 1871
ERROR to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illinois; the case being this:
Russell being the owner of a large number of lots of land in different counties in Illinois, conveyed one in May, 1837, to Josiah Breese. This deed was not recorded until the year 1864.
In December, 1837, Russell being a debtor to the United States mortgaged the same lot with all the several others that he owned to the then Solicitor of the Treasury, to secure this debt, and the mortgage was promptly put on record. There was no evidence that…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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