Gazzam v. Lessee of Phillips
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama. The parties claimed under the same titles which were before this court-in the case of Brown v. Clements, reported in 3 How., 650.. A diagram is there given, explanatory of'the mode in which the fractional section was divided between Stone and Etheridge.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama. The parties claimed under the same titles which were before this court-in the case of Brown v. Clements, reported in 3 How., 650.. A diagram is there given, explanatory of'the mode in which the fractional section was divided between Stone and Etheridge. The present suit was an ejectment brought in 1850, by Phillips and Etheridge, who claimed under Etheridge’s title against Gazzam, who claimed under that of Stone.' The suit was broughtin the Circuit Court of the county of Mobile, (Stát¿ court,) where…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
This is a writ of error to the Supreme Court of the State of Alabama.
The suit was brought in the court below to recover the possession of some four acres of land in the city of Mobile.
The lessors of the plaintiff claimed title to the lot in dispute as heirs- of James Etheridge, and gave in evidence a patent from the United States to their ancestor, dated 30th May, 1833, “for the southwest quarter section twenty-two, in township four south, of range one west, in the district of land subject to sale at St. Stephens, Alabama, containing ninety-two acres and sixty-seven hundredths of an acre,…
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