BENNER ET AL. v. PORTER, 50 U.S. 235 (1849)

HIRAM BENNER, JOSEPH B. BROWNE, AND SALISBURY HALEY, ASSIGNEES OF ELEAZER P. HUNT, APPELLANTS, v. JOSEPH Y. PORTER. DECEMBER TERM, 1849. Whilst Florida was a Territory, Congress established courts there, in which cases appropriate to Federal and State jurisdictions were tried indiscriminately. Florida was admitted into the Union as a State, on the 3d of […]

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50 U.S. 235

50 U.S. 235 50 U.S. 235 9 How. 235 13 L.Ed. 119 HIRAM BENNER, JOSEPH B. BROWNE, AND SALISBURY HALEY,ASSIGNEES OF ELEAZER P. HUNT APPELLANTS,v.JOSEPH Y. PORTER. January Term, 1850 THIS was an appeal from the District Court of the United States for Florida. It originated in the Superior Court for the Southern District of […]

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