McIntire v. Pryor
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal and a cross-appeal from a decree of the equity court confirming a report of the auditor. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: These are cross-appeals in the same suit from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, confirming a report of the auditor of that court. The cause was formerly before us on an appeal from a decree dismissing the bill of complaint.
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Hearing on an appeal and a cross-appeal from a decree of the equity court confirming a report of the auditor. The Court in its opinion stated the case as follows: These are cross-appeals in the same suit from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, confirming a report of the auditor of that court. The cause was formerly before us on an appeal from a decree dismissing the bill of complaint. That decree was reversed, and the cause remanded, “with direction to take an account of the indebtedness remaining due by the complainant to Hartwell Jenison, together with an account of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Morris
The defendants, the Mclntires, have assigned for error: 1st. That the court below erred in vacating and annulling the various deeds affecting the real estate involved in this case and mentioned and described in the pleadings, proceedings, and decree herein; 2d. That the court below erred in charging the defendants with the full amount of rentecollected by them from the property as improved after it. went out of the possession of Mary C. Pryor and into the possession of the defendant, Martha Mclntire. There is no assignment of error based upon the allowance or disallowance of the various items…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Green v. BiddleSupreme Court of the United States · 1823
- Story v. LivingstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1839
- Bright v. BoydU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine · 1841
- Putnam v. RitchieNew York Court of Chancery · 1837
- Lancaster v. CollinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
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