This cause comes before this Court upon a writ of error to the Circuit Court of the United States, for the southern district of Mississippi.
The statement of the case upon which the questions presented here for decision arise, is, as agreed by the parties upon the record, substantially the following:
On the 24th of March, in the year 1838, James Carter and...
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