Murrill v. Neill
Supreme Court of the United States
• This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, under the following circumstances.
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• This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, under the following circumstances. On the 24th' of September, 1839, Luke Tiernan, of the city of Baltimore, and Anne, his wife, made a deed of trust to Charles H. Carroll, of Livingston County, New York, thereby conveying' to said Carroll about 5,888 acres of land, part of Tuscarora Tract in said Livingston County, of which Luke Tiernan .was seized in fee simple as his individual property. The property so conveyed is in said deed-estimated to be. worth •about $ 120,000.• The deed, among other…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel
The original bill in this case having been framed upon a palpable misapprehension of the position of the parties, and of the facts connected with and entering into their rights or their obligations, reference to that bill beyond this remark is deemed unnecessary. The object of the amended bill filed by the complainants on behalf of themselves and others, creditors of the mercantile houses of Luke Tiernan and Charles' Tiernan of Baltimore, and of Tiernan, Cuddy, & Co-., of New Orleans, is to procure an appropriation to those creditors of the sum of $ 15,000, remaining in the hands of the…
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