Dorsey v. Packwood
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Louisiana. The leading facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the comb, to which the reader is referred. Upon the hearing in the Circuit Court, the bill was dismissed, and Dorsey appealed to this comb.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The record of this case covers 840 pages; and the abstracts and briefs of counsel, nearly three hundred. But as the merits of the case, when extricated from the mass of matter with which it is enveloped, depend on the application of undisputed principles and axioms of the law, to a few leading facts, it will not be necessary that our statement of it should be proportionally voluminous.
• Dorsey, the complainant and appellant, filed his bill in the Ci: cuit Court of Louisiana in March, 1848, claiming the specific execution of a contract in writing, executed on the 16th of April, 1821, which is…
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