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AYRES ET AL. v. CARVER ET AL.

58 U.S. 591 (1854)

17 How. 591

ELI AYRES AND THOMAS N. NILES, COMPLAINANTS ON CROSSBILL, APPELLANTS, v. HIRAM CARVER, JOSEPH W. MATTHEWS, JAMES BROWN, JACOB THOMPSON, JOHN P. JONES, WILLIAM H. DUKE, AND JOHN D. BRADFORD.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Adams for the appellants, and by Mr. Cushing, for the appellees.

Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the district court of the United States for the northern district of Mississippi.

A bill was filed by Hiram Carver, of the State of Alabama, against Joseph W. Matthews, of Mississippi, and some two hundred others, part of them residents of this State, part of Tennessee, but most of them without any residence mentioned, setting forth the treaty made with the Chickasaw...

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