Winchester v. Heiskell
Supreme Court of the United States
ERRQB TO THÉ SUPREME OQURT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. The following is £he case as stated'by the court. The facts disclosed by the record are in brief as follows: Oh the 16th of February, 1869, Annie L. Jones and others, the widow and heirs-at-law of William E. Jones, deceased, filed their bill in the Chancery Court of Shelby County; Tennessee,. against D. H. Townsend to set aside and cancel a sheriff’s deed .purporting to convey certain lands to him, and to be quieted…
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ERRQB TO THÉ SUPREME OQURT OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE. The following is £he case as stated'by the court. The facts disclosed by the record are in brief as follows: Oh the 16th of February, 1869, Annie L. Jones and others, the widow and heirs-at-law of William E. Jones, deceased, filed their bill in the Chancery Court of Shelby County; Tennessee,. against D. H. Townsend to set aside and cancel a sheriff’s deed .purporting to convey certain lands to him, and to be quieted in'their title to the property. The defendants in error, Heis- ■ kell, Scott & Heiskell, were employed by Townsend to defend…
1Opinion of the Court
MR. Chief Justice Waite,
after stating the.case, delivered the opinion of the court.
One of the questions presented by the bill was as to the binding effect of the decree in the original case upon the complainants in this suit. Objection was not made in the pleadings to the jurisdiction of the court over the subject-matter • of the action on account of the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United. States, under § 711 of the Revised Statutes, “ of all matters and proceedings in bankruptcy,” but it clearly' ivas at the trial before the referees, and it - was directly presented to and…
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