Shelton v. Tiffin
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for East Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity. On the 1st of August, 1837, Clayton Tiffin and Lilburn P. Perry received a deed for a tract of land on the western bank of the Mississippi River, .about five miles above the town of Vicksburg, and containing'six hundred and forty-four acres. On the 10th of April) 1838, Tiffin and Perry sold the same land, together with a large number of negroes, to.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for East Louisiana, sitting as a court of equity. On the 1st of August, 1837, Clayton Tiffin and Lilburn P. Perry received a deed for a tract of land on the western bank of the Mississippi River, .about five miles above the town of Vicksburg, and containing'six hundred and forty-four acres. On the 10th of April) 1838, Tiffin and Perry sold the same land, together with a large number of negroes, to. Samuel Anderson, for the sum of seventy-five thousand, dollars. The sale was stated to be for cash. But in fact the payment was to be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McLEAN
This is an appeal in chancery from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
On the 10th of April, 1838, the complainants below sold to one Samuel Anderson a plantation and negroes situated in the parish of Madison, Louisiana, for seventy-five thousand dollars. Thirty-five thousand dollars of this sum were paid in part by surrendering a note which Anderson held against Lilburn P. Perry, the complainant, and his father, John M. Perry, for thirteen thousand dollars; and by the assignment-of a note on H. R. Austin, J. B. Ragan, and Wylie Bohannon, of the State of Mississippi, for…
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