HIPP ET AL. v. BABIN ET AL.

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60 U.S. 271 (1857)

19 How. 271

15 L.Ed. 633

FELICITÉ FLETCHER HIPP, AND MARIA ANTONIO FLETCHER HIPP, ALIENS, AND RESIDING, THE FORMER IN VERA CRUZ, MEXICO, THE LATTER IN THE CITY OF MADRID, SPAIN, FOR THEMSELVES AND ON BEHALF AND FOR THE USE OF AUGUSTIN CUESTA, JAVIERA CUESTA, AND FELICITAS CUESTA, ALIENS, THE FORCED HEIRS OF ADELAIDE FLETCHER HIPP, DECEASED, v. CELINE BABIN, WIDOW OF URSIN JOLY, AND OTHERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 17, 1857.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was argued by Mr. Smiley and Mr. Perin in a printed argument for the appellants, and orally by Mr. Taylor for the appellees.


Mr. Justice CAMPBELL delivered the opinion of the court.

The appellants filed their bill to recover land within the district, in the possession of the defendants, and for an account of the rents, profits, and receipts, during the period of their occupancy. They allege that James Fletcher, their ancestor, died in 1804, leaving a valid will, by which he devised to his widow and three children the principal portion of his succession...

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