PECK v. HEURICH

No. 289.

167 U.S. 624 (1897)

17 S.Ct. 927

42 L.Ed. 302

PECK, v. HEURICH.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 24, 1897.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Franklin H. Mackey and Mr. Arthur A. Birney for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. W.F. Mattingly and Mr. Leon Tobriner for defendants in error.


MR. JUSTICE GRAY, after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.

One ground taken in the opinion of the Court of Appeals, and at the argument in this court, in support of the judgment for the defendant, was that, independently of the question of the validity of the deeds to the plaintiffs, they could not maintain this action, because they had not complied with the rule of the law of Maryland, in force in the District of Columbia, by which, in order to...

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