LEVI v. THOMPSON ET AL.


45 U.S. 17 (1846)

4 How. 17

ALEXANDER LEVI v. JOHN THOMPSON ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The cause was submitted on printed arguments, by Mr. Washington Hunt, for the appellant, and Davis and Crawford, for the appellees.


Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question raised by the pleadings in this cause, and it seems to us the only one argued at its hearings in the District and Supreme Courts of Iowa, was, whether the lot, for which Levi and Thompson had a preëmption certificate, which had been entered and paid for by them, was or was not liable to be sold upon execution issued upon a judgment rendered against...

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