Legal Opinion
Spraggins v. Humphries
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Tennessee
Decided July 6, 1812PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hezekiah Johnson commenced a caveat in the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county of Humphries against Spraggins, to prevent the emanation of a grant for eighty-one acres of land.
Spraggins appeared and filed his petition, praying that the cause might be removed for trial, to this Court. The petition stated that he was at the time of filing it a citizen of the State of Louisiana; and was at the commencement of the suit a citizen of the Territory now composing that State. It also alleges that the matter in dispute was of more value than five hundred dollars.
The allegations in the…
2Cited by4 opinions
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