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THOMPSON ET AL. v. LESSEE OF CARROLL ET AL.

63 U.S. 422 (1859)

22 How. 422

EMMA B.C. THOMPSON AND WILLIAM G.W. WHITE, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. RICHARD ROE, EX DEM JANE CARROLL, MARIA C. FITZHUGH, ANNE C. CARROLL, SARAH NICHOLSON, REBECCA CARROLL, HENRY MAY BRENT, DANIEL H. FITZHUGH AND CATHARINE D. HIS WIFE, DEVISEES OF DANIEL CARROLL OF DUDDINGTON, DECEASED.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Carlisle, upon a brief filed by himself and Mr. Badger, for the plaintiffs in error, who claimed under the tax title, and Mr. Brent and Mr. Tyler for the defendants, upon which side there was also a brief by Mr. Marbury and Mr. Redin.

Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.

The lessors of the plaintiffs below claim to recover a lot of ground in the city of Washington, the title to which was admitted to have been in their ancestor in 1835. In that year it was sold for taxes by the corporate authorities. The plaintiffs in error claim through mesne conveyances of the tax title.

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