Stebbins v. Niles
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error from the northern district chancery court at Holly Springs; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. Thomas N. Niles filed his original bill in November, 1845, in the northern district chancery court at Holly Springs, and alleges, in substance, that in 1834 and 1835 he contracted with various Chickasaw Indians, for the purchase of reservations to which they were entitled under the Chickasaw treaty of the 24th of May,. 1834, to the amount of fifty or more sections;…
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In error from the northern district chancery court at Holly Springs; Hon. Henry Dickinson, vice-chancellor. Thomas N. Niles filed his original bill in November, 1845, in the northern district chancery court at Holly Springs, and alleges, in substance, that in 1834 and 1835 he contracted with various Chickasaw Indians, for the purchase of reservations to which they were entitled under the Chickasaw treaty of the 24th of May,. 1834, to the amount of fifty or more sections; that upon each of these contracts he paid a part of the purchase-money at the time of making the contract, but, being…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Smith
This bill was filed by Thomas N. Niles, in the vice-chancery court at Holly Springs, against Russell Stebbins and others, the members of an association formed for the purpose of speculating in lands situated in the territory then recently acquired from the Chickasaws.
The objects of the bill were to obtain payment of a claim, alleged to be a stated account arising under a contract between the said association and Niles ; to recover his proportion of the profits of the said speculation ; and to subject to the payment of these demands the unsold lands and the assets of the company.
In 1844, a…
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