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GAINES ET UX. v. CHEW ET AL.

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43 U.S. 619 (1844)

2 How. 619

11 L.Ed. 402

EDMUND P. GAINES AND WIFE v. BEVERLY CHEW, RICHARD RELF, AND OTHERS.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 21, 1844.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henderson, Coxe, and Barton (leave having been obtained for three counsel to address the court on the same side) for the defendants below, who had demurred.

R. Johnson, for Gaines and wife, complainants.

Mr. Justice McLEAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This case is brought before the court from the eastern district of Louisiana, by a division of the judges on certain points, which are certified under the act of Congress.

The complainants in their bill state that Daniel Clark, late of the city of New Orleans, in the state of Louisiana, in the year 1813 died, seised in fee-simple, or otherwise well entitled to...

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