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CATHCART ET AL. v. ROBINSON

30 U.S. 264 (____)

5 Pet. 264

JAMES L. CATHCART AND JANE HIS WIFE, JOHN WOODSIDE, RICHARD SMITH, RICHARD HARRISON, JOSEPH ANDERSON, THOMAS T. TUCKER, AND WILLIAM H. CRAWFORD, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, APPELLANTS, vs. WILLIAM ROBINSON, APPELLEE.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued at January term 1830, by Mr Coxe and Mr Key for the appellants, and by Mr Lee and Mr Jones for the appellee.

Mr Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is a suit in chancery brought by the appellee in the court of the United States for the district of Columbia, to enforce the specific performance of a contract entered into between him and James L. Cathcart, one of the appellants, for the sale and purchase of a tract of land, called Howard, lying in the county of Alexandria; and also to subject a claim of the said Cathcart on the United States under...

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