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DOE v. ESLAVA ET AL.

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50 U.S. 421 (1850)

9 How. 421

13 L.Ed. 200

JOHN DOE, EX DEM. OF CATHARINE LOUISA BARBARIE, ANN BILLUP BARDE, DANIEL R. BROWER AND ANN B. BROWER, HIS WIFE, CURTIS LEWIS AND ISABELLA LEWIS, HIS WIFE, JOHN T. LACKEY AND MARGARET LACKEY, HIS WIFE, HEIRS AND LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF ROBERT FARMER, DECEASED, v. MIGUEL D. ESLAVA, AND OTHERS, TENANTS IN POSSESSION.

Supreme Court of United States.

May 28, 1850.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Phillips and Mr. Coxe, for the plaintiff in error, and Mr. Campbell, for the defendant in error.

Mr. Phillips, for the plaintiff in error, made the following points.

Mr. Campbell, for the defendant in error, contended, —

Mr. Coxe, for the plaintiff in error, in conclusion, made the following additional points.

Mr. Justice WOODBURY delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a writ of error on a judgment rendered in the Supreme Court of Alabama.

Our jurisdiction to revise such a judgment is very strictly limited to cases where some right or title was set up by a party under the general government, — its constitution, treaties, or laws, — and was overruled. It is this Federal character of the claim decided against...

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