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ORR v. HODGSON

17 U.S. 221 (____)

4 Wheat. 221

ORR v. HODGSON and Wife, et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

February 18th, 1819. The cause was argued by Jones, for the defendants and respondents — no counsel appearing for the appellant.

March 11th. STORY, Justice, delivered the opinion of the court. —

The whole merits of this cause rest upon the question, whether the defendants, Portia Hodgson, and Cornelia Hopkins, took an estate in fee-simple, in one moiety of the land stated in the bill, by descent, as nieces and heirs of Lucy Paradise, widow of John Paradise, upon her death in 1814. If they did, then the contract for the sale of the land to the plaintiff ought to be fulfilled; if not,...

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