Deering v. Martin

Campbell, Circuit Judge:

The appellants, as complainants in the court below, filed a bill in equity against the appellees, as respondents, and throughout this opinion we will refer to the appellants as complainants, and the appellees as respondents.

The bill of complaint, after setting forth the names and places of residence of the parties, alleges the following:

“Second. That during his lifetime James Deering was seized and possessed of a certain tract of land lying and being in said Dade county, generally known and referred to as Cape Florida, said tract of land comprising all of the extreme…