Nix v. Allen
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS. The facts which make the case are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This is a suit in equity, brought by the appellant, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas on the 2d day of May, 1879, to enjoin the execution of a judgment in ejectment recovered against him by the appellee at .the then .last April term of that court, for the possession of the west half and the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of sec. 30, T: 15 S., R. 28 E., in Arkansas, and to obtain a conveyance of the legal title to the property on the ground that Allen holds it in trust for him. The case shows that in 1846 Sarah Nix, the mother of John B.…
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