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AGRICULTURAL BANK OF MISSISSIPPI ET AL. v. RICE ET AL.

45 U.S. 225 (1846)

4 How. 225

THE AGRICULTURAL BANK OF MISSISSIPPI AND OTHERS, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. CHARLES RICE AND MARY HIS WIFE, AND MARTHA PHIPPS, DEFENDANTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Mason (Attorney-General), for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Thomas J. Johnston and Mr. Crittenden, for the defendants in error.

Mr. Mason, for the plaintiffs in error.

Mr. J.J. Johnston, for defendants in error.

Mr. Chief-Justice TANEY delivered the opinion of the court.

This being an action of ejectment, the only question between the parties is upon the legal title.

It is admitted in the exception, that Mary Rice and Martha Phipps, lessors of the plaintiff, were each of them, as heirs at law of Adam Bower, entitled to an undivided third part of the premises mentioned in the declaration, in fee simple. In order to show title...

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