Wickliffe v. Owings
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, sitting as a court of equity. It was a bill filed by Wicldiffe, under a statute of Kentucky, to quiet the. title to sundry tracts of land of which the complainant was in possession,.and to which he alleged that he had the legal title.
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This was an appeal from the circuit court of the United States for the district of Kentucky, sitting as a court of equity. It was a bill filed by Wicldiffe, under a statute of Kentucky, to quiet the. title to sundry tracts of land of which the complainant was in possession,.and to which he alleged that he had the legal title. Owings, it was averred, had removed tp Texas, and become a citizen of that State ; but had visited Kentucky, and set up a claim to the lands, threatening to institute suits against the complainant. Owings, in his answer, denied the jurisdiction of the court, upon the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Campbell
The plaintiff filed his bill in the circuit court of the United States for Kentucky, against Thomas Deye Owings, by which he assumes to be the owner, and in the lawful possession, of a number of tracts of land, lying in different counties of that State, which had at one time been the property of the defendant, but of which he had been legally divested, and notwithstanding claims, by the instigation and advice of other persons, to the prejudice and vexation of the plaintiff. The object of the bill is to establish the title and to quiet the possession of the plaintiff.
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