Sullivan v. Burnett
Supreme Court of the United States
Ebbob to tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This action, under the local law equivalent to an action of ejectment, involves tbe title to certain real estate in the city of St. Louis, of which Edward Sullivan, a naturalized citizen of the United States, who died intestate in the year 1866, was seized' in fee at the time of his death. Both parties claimed under him.
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Ebbob to tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. This action, under the local law equivalent to an action of ejectment, involves tbe title to certain real estate in the city of St. Louis, of which Edward Sullivan, a naturalized citizen of the United States, who died intestate in the year 1866, was seized' in fee at the time of his death. Both parties claimed under him. The court below specially found that Emily Sullivan, one of the plaintiffs, was his sister, and that Jeremiah Sullivan, the other plaintiff, was a son of .his deceased brother. It was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Harlan
At the death of the'intestate, as well as at the- commence-, men-t of this action, the plaintiffs — his sister and the son of his deceased brother- — were residents; of. Ireland arid subjects of the United Kingdom of Great Britaiii and- Ireland. • The defendants,- it is sufficient to say, hold, whatever title passed to a female-lunatic, foreign born and a'first cousin of the intestate, residing, at his death, in Maryland, but who, so far as the record discloses, never made a declaration of her intention ■to become a citizen of the United’ States; also, whatever title passed to the children of…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- McCreery's Lessee v. SomervilleSupreme Court of the United States · 1824
- Wacker v. WackerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1858
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