Parcels v. Johnson
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Missouri. Mrs. Johnson brought suit against one Parcels, in one of the Circuit Courts of Adair County, Missouri, to have an assignment of dower in a certain one hundred and twenty acres of land, of which she alleged that her husband had been seized in fee simple and in such way as that she was dowable of the land.
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Error to the Supreme Court of Missouri. Mrs. Johnson brought suit against one Parcels, in one of the Circuit Courts of Adair County, Missouri, to have an assignment of dower in a certain one hundred and twenty acres of land, of which she alleged that her husband had been seized in fee simple and in such way as that she was dowable of the land. The facts appeared to be, that her husband, before his marriage with her, had been a soldier in the infantry service of the United States in the war of 181.2, and as such was entitled under acts of Congress to one hundred and twenty acres of land; that…
1Opinion of the Court
The CHIEF JUSTICE
delivered the opinion of the court.
This writ of error is dismissed, upon the authority of Moore v. Robbins, * St. Clair County v. Lovingston, † Tracy v. Holcombe, ‡ Pepper v. Dunlap, § Brown v. Union Bank. ||
A writ of error can only issue from this court to the highest court of a State for a review of the final judgment or decree of. that court in a suit. In other words, it is only the last judgment or the last decree which the State courts can give in a suit, until that judgment.or decree is set aside or reversed, that this court can, even in the prescribed cases bring here…
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