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JONES ET AL. v. LEAGUE

59 U.S. 76 (1855)

18 How. 76

WILLIAM H. JONES, JAMES B. WELLS, JOHN CHAIN, JONAS A. CASTALINE, PHILIP C. PAUL, WILLIAM R. ROBERTS, AND JAMES W. BYRNE, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. THOMAS M. LEAGUE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Hale, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Hughes, for the defendant.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the district court of the United States of the district of Texas.

The plaintiff filed his petition in the district court, alleging that he was seized in fee of a certain tract of land in the county of Refugio, on St. Joseph's island, in the State of Texas; beginning, on said island, at the point nearest the Aransas bar; thence in a northeasterly...

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