Legal Opinion

McNeil v. Magee

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts

Decided May 15, 1829PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Bill in equity [by Archdeacon McNeil against James Magee and others]. The cause came to a hearing upon the bill, answers, depositions, and exhibits.

1Opinion of the Court

STORY, Circuit Justice.

This is the ease of a bill in equity, which was set down for a hearing at the last term, but from circumstances, to which it is unnecessary to allude, argued at so late a period of the term, that a continuance of it for advisement became indispensable. On the 13th of February 1808. McNeil (the plaintiff) executed two deeds of conveyance (which were recorded on the same day) to James Magee, (one of the original defendants but since deceased,) whereby, for the asserted consideration of $40,000, he granted to Magee, -in fie simple, certain parcels of land in Charlestown,…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Benedict v. LynchNew York Court of Chancery · 1815
  2. Frost v. BeekmanNew York Court of Chancery · 1814
  3. Seymour v. DelanceyNew York Court of Chancery · 1822
  4. Lessee of Heister v. FortnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1809
  5. Van Slyck v. KimballNew York Supreme Court · 1811

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Holden v. . PurefoySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1891
  2. Black v. WoodruffSupreme Court of Alabama · 1915
  3. Chicago M. & St. P. Ry. Co. v. StewartU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota · 1883
  4. Akely v. AkelySupreme Court of Vermont · 1844
  5. De Witt v. MoultonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1840

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