Marble Co. v. Ripley
Supreme Court of the United States
These were appeals from the Circuit Court for the District of Vermont, in two decrees, one of them on a bill filed by the Rutland Marble Company against a certain Ripley and one Barnes, and the other one a cross-bill filed by the same Ripley again'st the company just named.
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These were appeals from the Circuit Court for the District of Vermont, in two decrees, one of them on a bill filed by the Rutland Marble Company against a certain Ripley and one Barnes, and the other one a cross-bill filed by the same Ripley again'st the company just named. The ease was this: On the 22d of January, 1850, the said Ripley and the said Barnes together owned a tract of land in Rutland township, Vermont, containing about twenty-one acres, in which was a valuable marble quarry. On that day Ripley, by his deed, released and quit-claimed unto his co-tenant, Barnes, in fee simple, the…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice STRONG,
having stated the case, delivered-the opinion of the court.
The first question presented for our consideration is whether the pleadings and proofs exhibited a proper case for an injunction upon the defendants, Ripley and Barnes, against disturbing the complainants in their right to take possession, occupy, and use the property entered upon by-the said defendants, and against continuing the occupation which they had commenced of the quarries and other property, real and personal, of the company. The solution of this depends upon another question, which is, whether the entry…
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