Emma B. C. Thompson v. Richard Roe
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia. The facts of the ease and instruction given by the Circuit Court are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The lessors of the plaintiffs below claim to recover a lot of ground in the city of Washington,'the title to which was admitted to have been in their ancestor in 1835. In that year it was sold for taxes by the corporate authorities. The plaintiffs in error claim through mesne conveyances of the tax title.
The lot in question was assessed as vacant and unimprovéd; but the owner, Mr. Carroll, resided in Washington city. He owned a large number of unimproved lots, the taxes on which amounted to $5,690. He had personal property in and about his house, estimated at between five and six thousand…
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