Ford v. Delta & Pine Land Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI. This was a bill in equity filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi, on February 27, 1889, by the appellants as complainants to quiet their title to certain lands therein described. .Upon final hearing, on August 15, 1890, a decree was entered dismissing the bill, 43 Fed.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI. This was a bill in equity filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi, on February 27, 1889, by the appellants as complainants to quiet their title to certain lands therein described. .Upon final hearing, on August 15, 1890, a decree was entered dismissing the bill, 43 Fed. Rep. 181, from which decree the complainants have appealed to this court. Complainants’ chain of title is as follows: 1st. A patent on March 13,1853, from the United States to the State…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bbewee
¥e premise by saying that this case involves over 200 different tracts of land in nine separate counties, and amounting to 112,160 acres; that the titles to these various tracts as claimed by complainants are not all deraigned by the same conveyances or subject to the same conditions; that in consequence the many questions discussed ,so elaborately by counsel in their brief and in oral arguments do not affect alike all the tracts. We shall not attempt to consider all the questions presented, but have endeavored to select those which are necessary for a final determination of the case. We…
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