Hughes v. Moore
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Circuit Court, for the District of Columbia, sitting in Alexandria. This was a special action of assumpsit, brought by Mooiie against Hughes.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court, for the District of Columbia, sitting in Alexandria. This was a special action of assumpsit, brought by Mooiie against Hughes. The declaration, after several amendments, contained four counts.. • 1. The. first count stated, that whereas on the 16th ,of June, 1797, it was agreed between the Plaintiff, and one John Darby, by a writing under their hands and ■seals, now here shown to the Court, in substance as •lows: “ whereas Cleon Moore, had located in his own name, 9922- acres of .land in Kentucky, by a treasury warrant No. 19,100,” ■« and the said Cleon Moore, hath…
1Opinion of the Court
Marshall, Ch. J.
delivered the opinión of the Court as follows:
Much of the seeming intricacy of this cause will disappear, if we extricate the questions made by the pleadings before the Court, from others which might greatly embarrass and perplex it.
The 'declaration contains four counts. The first recites an original contract between Cleon Moore and John Darby, for the sale of certain lands, lying in Kentucky, and proceeds to recount in detail those transactions on which the action was founded. The other counts state, in different terms, the sevéral assumpsits,' which they allege to have been…
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