Erwin v. Lowry
Supreme Court of the United States
■ This case was brought up-from the Supreme Court for the Western District of Louisiana, by a writ of error issued under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act. In the beginning of the year 1835, Dawson and Nutt were the owners of some land situated in the parish of Carroll, in the State of Louisiana, on the waters of the Walnut Bayou, amounting to 640 acres, and also of a number of slaves.
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■ This case was brought up-from the Supreme Court for the Western District of Louisiana, by a writ of error issued under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act. In the beginning of the year 1835, Dawson and Nutt were the owners of some land situated in the parish of Carroll, in the State of Louisiana, on the waters of the Walnut Bayou, amounting to 640 acres, and also of a number of slaves. On the 8th of January, 1835, they sold the land and slaves to Alexander McNeill, of the State of Mississippi, for one hundred and five thousand dollars, payable in five payments; the • first four of…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Justice fCATRON
delivered the opinion of the court;
Alfred J. Lowry sued James. Erwin in the District Court for the ninth district of Louisiana, for a tract of land of about six hundred acres, and forty-four slaves, who were employed in cultivating the land by growing cotton thereon. The property was situate in' the parish of Madison, in that State. The suit was commenced in 1841, by petition, which alleges that about July, 1840, one James Erwin, illegally, and by fraud and collusion, and without any legal title thereto, took possession.of; all the above described property, and is still in…
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