Chappell v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OR THE UNITED STATES ROR THE DISTRICT OR MARYLAND. This was a petition, filed March 21, 1890, in the District Court of the United Státes for the District of Maryland, for the condemnation, under the act of Congress of August 1, 1888, c. 728,1 of a perpetual easement in a strip of fast land on Hawkins Point in Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland — described by metes and bounds and courses and distances, and as owned by Thomas C. Chappell —…
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ERROR TO THE DISTRICT COURT OR THE UNITED STATES ROR THE DISTRICT OR MARYLAND. This was a petition, filed March 21, 1890, in the District Court of the United Státes for the District of Maryland, for the condemnation, under the act of Congress of August 1, 1888, c. 728,1 of a perpetual easement in a strip of fast land on Hawkins Point in Anne Arundel County in the State of Maryland — described by metes and bounds and courses and distances, and as owned by Thomas C. Chappell — for the purpose of transmitting rays of lights, without obstruction, both by day and by night, between two beacon…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gbay
The motion for a writ, of certiorari for diminution of the record, in not stating that on July 15, 1890, the plaintiff in error filed a petition for the allowance of a writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States to the District Court in which the proceedings were pending, must be denied, for several reasons: 1st. The motion was not made at the first term, as required by Rule 14 of this court, and no satisfactory cause is shown for the delay. ,2d. The copy of docket entries, submitted with the motion, while it shows that a petition for a writ of error was filed on that day, does…
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