Swift v. Kortrecht
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Tennessee.
1Opinion of the Court
SEVERENS, Circuit Judge.
The controversy presented by this appeal relates mainly to a question of priorities between certain liens upon 106 acres of land lying along the Eoosa Hatchie river, in Shelby county, Tenn. After disposing of a single outlying question, we shall pass over a tangle of pleading and procedure in which the principal subject was involved an the circuit court, and gather up the threads of the case as it was finally presented for decision.
A. H. Kortrecht, one of the appellees, was the owner of the land in question. Mary P. Kortrecht, another of the appellees, was his wife. On…
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