Wilson v. Riddle
Supreme Court of the United States
In equity. Decree in favor of plaintiffs. Defendant appealed. The case is stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
This is a suit in equity, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Georgia, originally brought as an action of ejectment, by the wife of- William C. Biddle, four of their married daughters, an unmarried daughter, three sons, and two daughters of a deceased daughter, against J. Ben. Wilson, in the Superior Court of the county of Washington, in the State of Georgia, in August, 1881, to recover the possession of 1500 acres of land, and the mesne profits thereof, alleged to be of the yearly value of $1300, since the 1st of January, 1877.
The original petition, by…
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