JANE ET AL. v. VICK ET AL.


44 U.S. 464 (1845)

3 How. 464

JOHN LANE AND SARAH C. LANE, WIFE OF THE SAID JOHN, AND ELIZABETH IRION, AN INFANT UNDER TWENTY-ONE YEARS, WHO SUES BY JOHN LANE HER NEXT FRIEND, COMPLAINANTS AND APPELLANTS, v. JOHN W. VICK, SARGEANT S. PRENTISS ET AL., DEFENDANTS.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben Hardin, (in print,) for the plaintiffs in error.

Crittenden, for the defendants in error.


Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is brought here by an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court for the district of Mississippi.

The complainants under the will of Newit Vick, late of the state of Mississippi, deceased, claim certain interests in a tract of two hundred acres of land, on which the town of Vicksburg is laid off. In the bill various proceedings are stated as to the proof...

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