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SHELTON v. TIFFIN ET AL.

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47 U.S. 163 (1848)

6 How. 163

12 L.Ed. 387

NELSON F. SHELTON, APPELLANT, v. CLAYTON TIFFIN AND LILBURN P. PERRY.

Supreme Court of United States.

March 9, 1848.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Jones, for the appellant, Shelton, and Mr. Crittenden, for Tiffin and Perry; but the length to which this case has already reached renders it impossible to give any other than a very brief sketch of their arguments.

Mr. Jones, for the appellant, objected to the jurisdiction of the court upon two grounds: —

Mr. Crittenden, for the appellees,

Mr. Jones, in reply and conclusion.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal in chancery from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

On the 10th of April, 1838, the complainants below sold to one Samuel Anderson a plantation and negroes situated in the parish of Madison, Louisiana. for seventy-five thousand dollars. Thirty-five thousand dollars of this sum were paid in part by surrendering a note which Anderson held against Lilburn P. Perry,...

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