Oliver v. Piatt
Supreme Court of the United States
This was art appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Ohio, sitting as a court of equity. The record was very voluminous, consisting of nearly eight hundred printed 'pages. The acts and declarations of the parties were given in evidence, running through a period of twenty years; • and the case being an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court, as a court of equity, all this mattqr was brought up to the Supreme Court.
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This was art appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Ohio, sitting as a court of equity. The record was very voluminous, consisting of nearly eight hundred printed 'pages. The acts and declarations of the parties were given in evidence, running through a period of twenty years; • and the case being an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court, as a court of equity, all this mattqr was brought up to the Supreme Court. It is impossible, therefore, to put into this statement all the circumstances which had a bearing upon the point in issue, which was, Whether,a…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story
- This is the case of an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court of the district of Ohio, sitting in equity,- — rendered in favour of the original plaintiff, and it. is brought to this court by the original- defendants* who are how the appellants. ■ The record is exceedingly. ' voluminous, and the facts and; proceedings complicated and perplexed by a variety of details. A" general outline of the leading • facts is given in the printed opinion of the court below, with which we have been favoured’; and those facts cannot be more succinctly stated than they are in that summary — we shall…
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