DORSEY v. PACKWOOD


53 U.S. 126 (1851)

12 How. 126

GREENBERRY DORSEY, COMPLAINANT AND APPELLANT, v. SAMUEL PACKWOOD.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Henderson for the appellant, and Mr. Butler for the appellee.


Mr. Justice GRIER delivered the opinion of the court.

The record of this case covers 840 pages; and the abstracts and briefs of counsel, nearly three hundred. But as the merits of the case, when extricated from the mass of matter with which it is enveloped, depend on the application of undisputed principles and axioms of the law, to a few leading facts, it will not be necessary that our statement of it should be proportionally...

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