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ERWIN v. LOWRY

48 U.S. 172 (1849)

7 How. 172

JAMES ERWIN, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. ALFRED J. LOWRY, CURATOR OF ALEXANDER McNEILL, DECEASED.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Brent and Mr. Badger, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Bradley and Mr. Jones, for the defendant in error.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

Alfred J. Lowry sued James Erwin in the District Court for the ninth district of Louisiana, for a tract of land of about six hundred acres, and forty-four slaves, who were employed in cultivating the land by growing cotton thereon. The property was situate in the parish of Madison, in that State. The suit was commenced in 1841, by petition, which alleges that about July, 1840, one James Erwin, illegally, and by...

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