Legal Opinion
Stuart v. City of Easton
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided June 4, 1896No. 18PublishedCited by 7 opinions
In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of .Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
ACHESON, Circuit Judge.
This was an action of ejectment by William Dugald Stuart, an alien and subject of the queen of *855Great Britain, against the city of Easton and county of Northampton, corporations of the state of Pennsylvania.
The county of Northampton was laid out and erected by an act of the general assembly of the province of Pennsylvania passed the JLlth day of March,, 175:2. 1 Dali. Laws, 1-52. The sixth section of the act provided as follows:
“And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for Thomas Craig, Hugh Wilson, John Jones, Tilomas Armstrong, and James…
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