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ADAMS ET AL. v. LAW

57 U.S. 144 (____)

16 How. 144

JAMES ADAMS, EXECUTOR OF THOMAS LAW, DECEASED, AND HENRY MAY, ADMINISTRATOR OF EDMUND AND THOMAS LAW, APPELLANTS, v. JOSEPH E. LAW, BY HIS NEXT FRIEND, MARY ROBINSON.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Two motions were made in respect to it. One by Mr. Coxe, to dismiss the appeal, and issue a procedendo, and the other by Mr. Lawrence, on behalf of the appellants.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal in chancery, from the decree of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.

A motion is made by the appellant's counsel for a supersedeas, on the ground that the hearing of the case in the Circuit Court was brought on irregularly, and the decree entered in the absence of the principal counsel for the...

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