FISHER v. HALDEMAN ET AL.


61 U.S. 186 (____)

20 How. 186

ISAAC M. FISHER, APPELLANT, v. JOHN HALDEMAN, JACOB S. HALDEMAN, RICHARD J. HALDEMAN, AND ROBERT J. ROSS, EXECUTORS OF JACOB HALDEMAN, DECEASED, AND THOMAS CHAMBERS, ADMINISTRATOR DE BONIS NON OF THOMAS DUNCAN, DECEASED.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Fisher for the appellant, and by Mr. John M. Read for the appellee.


Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellant filed his bill in the Circuit Court of the United States for the eastern district of Pennsylvania, claiming to be the equitable owner of an island in the Susquehanna river, containing about seven hundred acres, and praying that the respondents may be decreed to surrender to him the possession of the same, to deliver up their deeds and muniments of title, and...

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