Butterfield v. Miller
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee. Suit in equity by Griffin T. Miller "and others against Roger W. Butterfield and Thomas M. Peck. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal.
1Per curiam
Appellees (hereafter called complainants) filed their bill to remove cloud from title to a tract of 5,000 acres in Perry county, Tenn., entered by Isaac W. Stanley in 1841. They deraign title from Stanley through deed dated May 22, 1851. by John Montgomery (claimed to have been Stanley’s administrator) to Secrist, who conveyed to Stephens August 4, 1855, and by conveyance July 1, 1858, by the clerk and master of the chancery court of Perry county to Brown and Miller (complainant’s ancestors) under decree of that court in attachment proceedings brought by Brown and Miller against Stephens.…
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