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LA ROCHE ET AL. v. JONES ET AL.

50 U.S. 155 (1850)

9 How. 155

RENE LA ROCHE AND MARY, HIS WIFE, INEZ R. ELLIS, STEPHEN P. ELLIS, AND THOMAS LA ROCHE ELLIS, MINOR HEIRS OF THOMAS G. ELLIS, DECEASED, BY THEIR GUARDIAN AN LITEM, CHARLES G. DAHLGREN, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. THE LESSEE OF RICHARD JONES AND WIFE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Gilpin and Mr. Walker, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Morehead, for the defendants in error.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

The original suit out of which this writ of error arises was an action of ejectment, brought in the District Court of the United States for the District of Mississippi, at October term A.D. 1823, by John Doe, lessee of Richard Jones and Mary, his wife, citizens of Kentucky, against Thomas Ellis and Mary Ellis, to recover a tract of land in Wilkinson County in the State...

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