KELLY v. JACKSON ET AL.


31 U.S. 622 (____)

6 Pet. 622

SAMUEL KELLY, A CITIZEN OF NEW YORK, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. JAMES JACKSON, A CITIZEN OF NEW JERSEY, DEFENDANT IN ERROR, EX DEM. HENRY GAGE MORRIS, MARIA MORRIS, THOMAS HINCKS, JOHN HINCKS, ALIENS AND BRITISH SUBJECTS, JOHN JACOB ASTOR, THEODOSIUS FOWLER, CADWALLADER D. COLDEN AND CORNELIUS I. BOGART, CITIZENS OF NEW JERSEY.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Beardsley and Mr. Hoffman for the plaintiff in error; and by Mr. Ogden and Mr. Wirt for the defendant.


Mr. Justice STORY delivered the opinion of the Court.

Many of the questions arising in this case have been disposed of in the judgment already pronounced in the case of Crane v. Jackson, upon the demise of the same parties; the title and evidence being in each case substantially the same. It will be necessary, therefore, to examine into those objections only, to the ruling of the circuit court at the trial, which are presented...

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