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Ellis Vs. Davis

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Dec 10, 1883

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  4. Freeman Vs. Howe US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1860
  5. Hook Vs. Payne US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1871
  6. Hipp Vs. Babin US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1856
  7. Gaines Vs. Fuentes US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1875
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  9. U.S. 485 (1883) U.S. Supreme Court Ellis v. Davis
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  10. U.S. 485 (1883) Ellis v. Davis
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  11. for recovery of possession if the complainant has a plain, adequate, and complete remedy at the common law. Hipp v. Babin
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  12. are on one side citizens of the state in which the will is proved, and on the other citizens of other states. Gainer v. Fuentes
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  13. prayer in the bill for a recovery of the possession. In no respect does it differ from the frame of the bill in Hipp v. Babin
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  14. This case was cited and its doctrine approved and applied in the recent case of Root v. Railway
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  15. Wall. 503. It was elaborately considered and finally determined in England by the House of Lords in the case of Allen v. McPherson
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  16. if not objected to or if there were any impediments to the proper trial of the merits on such an action. Bootle v. Blundell
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  17. Boyse v. Rossborough
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  18. to survivors by the death of a person caused by the wrongful act, neglect, or default of another, Railway Co. v. Whitton
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  19. Dennick v. Railroad
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  20. Boom Co. v. Patterson
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  21. U. S. 403 . In Hyde v. Stone
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  22. In Payne v. Hook
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  23. acquired possession of the res which is the subject of the litigation is entitled to administer it. Williams v. Benedict
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  24. Wall. 252. It was said by this Court in Gaines v. Fuentes
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  25. title is asserted as against the will claimed to be invalid, making an issue involving that question. In O'Donogan v. Knox
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  26. In Robert v. Allier's
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  27. or to say that it shall not be executed. This is the purport and extent of the decision in the case of Lewis' Heirs v. His
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  28. In Rachal v. Rachal
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  29. Sophie v. Duplessis
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  30. Abston v. Abston
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  31. La.Ann. 137. In Sharp v. Knox
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  32. In Hoover's Succession v. York
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  33. And the same principle governed the decision in Blasini v. Blasini's
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  34. possession, but the exception was overruled on the ground that the suit was of probate jurisdiction. In Gibson v. Dooley
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  35. the succession had been closed by a delivery of the property to the instituted heir. The rule, as laid down in Robert v. Allier
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  36. with reference to the jurisdiction of the courts of the United States, was the subject of consideration in Barrow v. Hunton
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  37. of the Code of practice is a question therefore which we are not called upon to discuss or decide. The case of Gaines v. Fuentes
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  38. U.S. Supreme Court Ellis v. Davis
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  39. Gainer v. Fuentes
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  40. of Root v. Railway
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  41. of Allen v. McPherson
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  42. Bootle v. Blundell
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  43. Railway Co. v. Whitton
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  44. In Hyde v. Stone
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  45. Williams v. Benedict
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  46. In O'Donogan v. Knox
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  47. of Lewis' Heirs v. His
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  48. In Sharp v. Knox
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  49. Blasini v. Blasini's
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  50. In Gibson v. Dooley
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