LESSEE OF McCALL ET AL. v. CARPENTER ET AL.


59 U.S. 297 (1855)

18 How. 297

JOHN DOE, ex dem. JAMES B. McCALL, HENRY V. McCALL, AND MARY SIDNEY McCALL, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR v. WILLIARD CARPENTER AND JOHN A. REITZ.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was submitted on printed arguments by Mr. Dunn, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Baker, for the defendants.


Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a writ of error to the circuit court of the United States for the district of Indiana.

The suit in the court below was an action of ejectment by the plaintiffs to recover the possession of certain town lots in the city of Lamasco. They proved on the trial, that their father, James B. McCall, was the owner of an undivided fourth of a certain part of said...

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