KENNEDY'S EXECUTORS ET AL. v. HUNT'S LESSEE ET AL.


48 U.S. 586 (1849)

7 How. 586

JOSHUA KENNEDY'S EXECUTORS ET AL., PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. LESSEE OF JONATHAN HUNT, JOHN HAGAN ET AL., DEFENDANTS IN ERROR.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. John O. Sargent and Mr. Johnson, for the plaintiffs in error, and by Mr. Underwood and Mr. Sargeant, for the defendants in error.


Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

This case comes here by writ of error to the Supreme Court of Alabama, under the twenty-fifth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, and the first question made by the defendants in error is, whether any matter presented by the record will authorize this court to exercise jurisdiction under the twenty-fifth section. And to ascertain how far, if at all, the powers of this...

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