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WEATHERHEAD'S LESSEE v. BASKERVILLE ET AL.

52 U.S. 329 (____)

11 How. 329

JOHN DEN, LESSEE OF POLLY WEATHERHEAD, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. JOHN BASKERVILLE, JOHN WHITE, JOHN PARKER, PETER HAYNES, WILLIAM STEWART, NANCY STEWART, NELSON B. TURNER, JACOB GALLASPIE, PETER BRYSON, BENJAMIN PARRISH, WILLIAM JOHNSON, REUBEN D. BROWN, THOMAS SAUNDERS, RICHARD WINN, THOMAS STONE, BEVERLY HEAD, DAVID CHENAULT, W.W. WEATHERHEAD, JOHN WEATHERHEAD, GEORGE T. BROWN, B.F. SHARP, AND FRANCIS ROGAN.

Supreme Court of United States.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Meigs, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Fogg, for the defendants in error.

Mr. Meigs, for the plaintiff in error.

Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

All of us agree — our learned brother who presided upon the trial of this case in the Circuit Court concurring — that so much of the testimony submitted to the jury, to show a different intention in the testator from that which his will discloses, was inadmissible. Weatherhead v. Sewell, 9 Humph. 272; Newburgh v. Newburgh, 5 Madd. 364; Miller v. Travers, 8...

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