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LESSIEUR ET AL. v. PRICE

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53 U.S. 59 (1851)

12 How. 59

13 L.Ed. 893

GODFREY LESSIEUR, ABRAM AUGUSTINE AND MARY W. HIS WIFE, THOMAS H. DAWSON, RICHARD J. WATSON AND SARAH HIS WIFE, AND PALMELIA E. DAWSON, LAURA A. DAWSON AND GEORGE W. DAWSON, INFANTS, BY THOMAS H. DAWSON THEIR GUARDIAN, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. THOMAS PRICE.

Supreme Court of United States.

December 17, 1851.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Glover, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Leslie, for the defendant.

Mr. Leslie, for the defendant in error.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

The first consideration arising in this case involves a matter of practice. The suit was brought in a State Circuit Court of Missouri, and tried by the court without the intervention of a jury; when the judge ruled questions of law propounded to him unfavorable to the plaintiffs, and gave judgment for the defendant, to reverse which, a writ of error was prosecuted, and...

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