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United States v. Lee

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 18, 1882No. 25PublishedCited by 838 opinions

Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the •Eastern District of Virginia. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller

■ These are two writs of error to the same judgment: one prosecuted by the United States, eo nomine ; and the other by the Attorney-General of the United States, in the names of Frederick Kaufman and Richard P. Strong, the defendants against whom judgment was rendered in the Circuit Court.

The action was originally commenced in the Circuit Court for the county of Alexandria, .in the State of Virginia, by George W. P. C. Lee, against Kaufman and Strong and á great number of others, to recover possession of a parcel of land of about eleven hundred acres, known as the Arlington estate. It waS in…

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