SNEAD v. M'COULL ET AL.


53 U.S. 407 (1851)

12 How. 407

JESSE SNEAD, LATE HIGH SHERIFF OF HENRICO COUNTY, AND AS SUCH, ADMINISTRATOR DE BONIS NON OF ALBERT SEEKAMP, DECEASED, APPELLANT, v. JULIA M'COULL, WIDOW OF NEIL M'COULL, CHARLES L. M'COULL, ADMINISTRATOR DE BONIS NON OF NEIL M'COULL, AND THE SAID CHARLES L. M'COULL, MARY P., JULIA L., AND JOHN JAMES M'COULL, HEIRS OF NEIL M'COULL, WILLIAM SELDEN, AND EDMUND CHRISTIAN, MARSHAL OF THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Johnson, for the appellant, and Mr. Robinson, for the appellee.


Mr. Justice DANIEL delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States from the Eastern District of Virginia, dismissing the bill of the appellant who was plaintiff in that court.

On the 3d of December, 1814, Seekamp's administrators recovered a judgment in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia, against Neill M'Coull, for...

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