Mayor of Mobile v. Hallett

This case is brought here by a writ of error from the Supreme Court of Alabama. ' The plaintiffs claim title under an act of Congress, and the decision of the State Court was agamst the title; whiebf under the twenty-fifth section of the judiciary act, gives jurisdiction to this Court.'

■ The -plaintiffs brought their action of trespass to try the title to a lot of ground in the city of Mobile, bounded as follows— commencing at a point on St. Louis street, in said city, sixty-six feet west of the corner of St. Louis and Water streets, thence north twenty-five degrees west fo the line dividing…