Peale v. Phipps
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 Eastern District of Louisiana. It will be seen, by reference to 4 Howard, 225, ‘that Charles Rice, and Mary his wife, and Martha Phipps, recovered, in an action of ejectment against the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi, two undivided third parts of a lot of ground in the city of Natchez.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the, Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. It will be seen, by reference to 4 Howard, 225, ‘that Charles Rice, and Mary his wife, and Martha Phipps, recovered, in an action of ejectment against the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi, two undivided third parts of a lot of ground in the city of Natchez. In May, 1847, they sued out a writ of habere facias possessionem, and entered into possession of the property. Under the laws of Mississippi, the charter of the bank became forfeited, and Elijah Peale was…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This suit was brought by the defendants in error against the plaintiff in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
The proceeding was by petition in the usual form of Louisiana practice. It states that the- plaintiff in error, in the capacity of trustee and assignee of the President, Directors, and Company of the Agricultural Bank of Mississippi, which was located, until the term of its dissolution at Natchez,in the said State, is indebted to the petitioners in the sum. of $34,000, upon the grounds set forth in the petition.
They state that they were the…
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