David v. Levy

BROWN, District Judge.

The bill alleges, in substance, that in 1759 a tract of land in Newport was purchased by a number of persons of the Jewish faith, and that a deed of said land was executed by its owner, Ebenezer Allen, to Jacob Rodriques Rivera, Moses Levy, and Isaac Harte, all of Newport. This deed, which is annexed to the bill, is upon its face a deed to the grantees named for a full money consideration, and affords no evidence in itself of the allegation of the bill that the said grantees “became joint tenants of said parcels of land as trustees of the Jews of Newport, forever”; nor…