Blight's Lessee v. Rochester
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to. the Circuit Court of Kentucky. This w>as an ejectment in the Court below, brought to recover the possession of lot No. 18, in the town of Danville, in the State of Kentucky.
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Error to. the Circuit Court of Kentucky. This w>as an ejectment in the Court below, brought to recover the possession of lot No. 18, in the town of Danville, in the State of Kentucky. It appeared, fr°m eyidence in the cause, that the plaintiffs are the heirs of John Dunlap, wiio was a citizen of Pennsylvania, and claimed as the heir of his brother, James Dunlap, who died seised of the premises in question, in the autumn of 1794. James Dunlap was an alien, and a subject of. the king of Great Britain, who came to. the United States subsequent to the treaty of peace of 1783, and died before the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
The exceptions taken to the opinion of the Circuit Court in this case, may be divided into two parts :
1st. Those which respect the actual title of the plaintiffs.
2d. Those which respect the ability of the defend ant to contest that title.
1st. The title of the plaintiffs.
They are the heirs of John Duqlap, who was a citizfen of Pennsylvania, and claimed as the heir of James Dunlap, who died seised of the premises in the declaration mentioned, in the autumn of 1794. The defendants allege and prove that -James Dunlap was an alien,'and subject to the King of Great Britain, who came into the United…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Phillips v. RothwellCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1815
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