McCormick v. Sullivant
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Ohio. The appellants filed their bill in equity in the Court below, setting forth, that.
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APPEAL from the Circuit Court of Ohio. The appellants filed their bill in equity in the Court below, setting forth, that. William Crawford, deceased, the father of the female appellants, being, in his lifetime, a colonel in the Virginia line, on continental establishment, and, as such, entitled to the quantity of 6,666 and 2-3d acres of land, to be laid of between the Scioto and Little Miami; rivers, on the northwest side of the river Ohio, departed this life having first duly made and published his last will and ‘testament, bearing date the 18th of June, 1782, whereby he devised all his…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Washington
How far the Courts of the United States are Courts of limited jurisdiction. A judgment of those Courts may be reversed for want of jurisdiction appearing on the face of the proceedings but, until so reversed, is conclusive as a res adjudicata.
The question which the plea of Thompson’s heirs, and. the answer of Winship’s heirs, presents, is, whether the general decree of dismission of the bill inequity, filed by the present plaintiffs in the Federal District Court of Ohio, against the ancestor of these defendants, under whom they respectively claim title, is a bar the remedy which is sought to…
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