LESSEE OF LEVY ET AL. v. M'CARTEE


31 U.S. 102 (____)

6 Pet. 102

LESSEE OF MORDECAI LEVY, ELIZABETH LEVY, CHAPMAN LEVY AND ROSINA HIS WIFE, BELLA HART, BELLA COHEN, RHINA MORDECAI, FLORA LEVY AND JACOB HENRY v. PETER M'CARTEE.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr Hoffman for the lessors of the plaintiffs, and by Mr Wirt for the defendants.


Mr Justice STORY delivered the opinion of the Court.

This case comes before the court upon a certificate of division of opinion of the judges of the circuit court for the southern district of New York, in a case stated in a special verdict.

Philip Jacobs, an American citizen, died in 1818 seised of certain real estate in the state of New York, having made his last will and testament; but the land in controversy in the present suit (which is an ejectment) is...

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