Foulke v. Zimmerman
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the District of Louisiana. These were two suits in the court below, in the nature of actions of ejectment to recover certain lots in New Orleans, and also rents and profits. That court gave judgment in both cases for the defendants, and to these judgments the present writs of error were taken.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
stated the case and delivered the opinion of the court.
The plaintiffs claim, as heirs-at-law of Elizabeth Clew, who died in New York in the year 1859, and there seems to be no question that they are her next of kin, or purchasers from them, and that she died seized of the property.
The defendants claim as purchasers from John F. Clew, husband of said. Elizabeth, under a will of said Elizabeth, probated in the proper court of New Orleans in January, 1861, which will declared him to be her sole heir and universal legatee.
This will was admitted to probate in Louisiana on the strength of an order…
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