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HOWARD ET AL. v. INGERSOLL

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54 U.S. 381 (1852)

13 How. 381

14 L.Ed. 189

JOHN H. HOWARD, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR, v. STEPHEN M. INGERSOLL; JOHN H. HOWARD AND JOSEPHUS ECKOLLS, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. STEPHEN M. INGERSOLL.

Supreme Court of United States.

May 27, 1852.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

These cases having been brought before this court upon these two bills of exceptions, were argued by Mr. Johnson and Mr. Berrien, for the plaintiffs in error, and Mr. Coxe, for the defendant in error. The reporter gives the following notes of the argument of Mr. Berrien, which have been kindly revised by him, and having no notes of Mr. Coxe's argument, begs to refer the reader to the report of the Alabama case, in 17 Alabama Reports, 780; where will be found the argument of the counsel for Ingersoll, and also the opinion of the court as delivered by Dargan, C.J.

Mr. Berrien, for plaintiffs in error.

Mr. Justice WAYNE delivered the opinion of the court.

The point for decision in these cases is one of boundary, between the States of Georgia and Alabama. It is, what is the line of Georgia on the western bank of the Chattahoochee River, from the 31st deg. north latitude, "where the same crosses the boundary-line between the United States and Spain; running thence up the said River Chattahoochee, and along the western bank...

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