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HOYT ET AL. v. HAMMEKIN ET UX.

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55 U.S. 346 (1853)

14 How. 346

14 L.Ed. 449

NATHANIEL HOYT AND JAMES BLANDIN, ADMINISTRATORS, &C., AND THE SAID JAMES BLANDIN, WILLIAM M. HUDSON, AND JOSEPHINE, HIS WIFE, HEIRS OF ANTOINE BLANDIN, DECEASED, AND ELISHA M. PEASE, APPELLANTS, v. GEORGE S. HAMMEKIN, AND ADELAIDE MATILDA, HIS WIFE.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 10, 1853.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Allen, for the appellant, with whom was Mr. Hale, and by Mr. Hughes, for the appellee.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal in Chancery, from the District Court of the United States for the District of Texas.

The bill alleges, that the States of Coahuila and Texas, on the 23d of November, 1833, granted eleven leagues of land, on the River Navasota, in the department of Nacogdoches, and of the value of fifty thousand dollars, to Adelaide Matilda Mexia; that on the 10th of February, 1836, her father, Antonio...

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