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THE UNITED STATES v. PHILADELPHIA AND NEW ORLEANS

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52 U.S. 609 (1851)

11 How. 609

13 L.Ed. 834

THE UNITED STATES, APPELLANTS, v. THE MAYOR, ALDERMEN, AND INHABITANTS OF THE CITIES OF PHILADELPHIA AND NEW ORLEANS.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 21, 1851.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

From this decree the United States appealed to this court. The appeal was argued by Mr. Crittenden (Attorney-General), for the United States, and by Mr. Strawbridge and Mr. Soulé, on behalf of the appellees, with whom was Mr. John Sergeant, representing the city of Philadelphia.

Mr. Crittenden made the following points.

After examining the various muniments of title Mr. Strawbridge proceeded as follows.

Mr. Soulé.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

In this case objections were made in the court below, and are again insisted on here, to the proof of authenticity of the title-papers on which the petition is founded; nothing but copies being produced. Our opinion is that the copies were properly admitted in evidence, and that they establish the facts that similar originals existed; and as on the true meaning of these...

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