Life & Fire Ins. Co. of NY v. Adams
Supreme Court of the United States
ON motion for a mandamus to the district court of the United States, for the eastern district-of Louisiana. s The casé is fully stated in the opinion of the court. Mr Rutler stated, that the case was before the court upon the following order.
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ON motion for a mandamus to the district court of the United States, for the eastern district-of Louisiana. s The casé is fully stated in the opinion of the court. Mr Rutler stated, that the case was before the court upon the following order. That the honourable Samuel H. Harper, judge of the district court of the-Ünited States, for the eastern district of Louisiana (who now here appears by his counsel, Henry Clay and ’ Alexander H. Porter, Esquires, and consents to this rule),, show cause, on Saturday next, why this court shall not award a writ of mandamus, requiring and commanding him, 1.…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Marshall
Court.
The petition for a mandamus states, among other things, that Christopher Adams of Iberville, in Louisiana, .on the Kith day of January 1824, at New. Orleans, executed and acknowledged before a notary public, a mortgage of a plantation, called the Belle Plantation, in Iberville, with seventy slaves, for securing to the petitioners divers sums of money, amounting to 32,522 dollars and 50 cents, at different periods, the last payment to fall due on the 18th- day of January 1829, all bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum. At the time of executing the said mortgage, sundry…
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