Alexander and Other v. Pendleton

12 U.S. 462

8 Cranch 462

3 L.Ed. 624

ALEXANDER AND OTHER

v.

PENDLETON.

March 12, 1814

1

THIS was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the district of Columbia, sitting at Alexandria, as a Court of Equity.

2

The case, as stated by MARSHALL, Ch. J. in delivering the opinion of the Court, was as follows:

3

This suit was brought in the year 1806, in the Circuit Court for the county of Alexandria, for the purpose of quieting the title of Nathaniel Pendleton, the Plaintiff in that Court, to 83 acres of land contiguous to the town of Alexandria which have been in his possession, and in the possession of those…