Paxson v. Brown
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. This was a suit by J. X. Brown against Charles Paxson and the Iowa & Arkansas Land Company to remove clouds on the title to certain lands.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. This was a suit by J. X. Brown against Charles Paxson and the Iowa & Arkansas Land Company to remove clouds on the title to certain lands. Complainant having died, the suit: was continued in the names of Sarah Brown, ida B. Brown, Mariah X. Glassgow, Sarah E. Kennedy, Xancy (laston, and Bertha J. Klinskneith, a minor, by William Klinskneith, her next, friend, complainant’s widow and heirs, and a decree in their favor was rendered. Defendants appealed. December 11, 1888, .T. N. Brown filed a bill in the…
1Opinion of the CourtSanborn, Circuit Judge
The record in this case presents but a single question for our consideration; and that is whether or not the evidence read at the hearing below warrants the decree for the appellees.
*877We have not failed to notice that in the assignment of errors the appellants allege that the court below committed error in permitting a certain decree of the circuit court of St. Francis county, state of Arkansas, to he read in evidence, in permitting the assignments of William G. Lane and William G. Lane & Co. to be read in evidence, and in allowing the appellees to read in evidence the deposition of Joseph W.…
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