Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Wheeler v. Cloyd — Opinion of the Court

On the 20th of April, 1859, the county of Wayne, in the state of Illinois, by virtue of an authority derived from an act of the state legislature, executed a mortgage and a deed of trust upon about 100,000 acres of its swamp and overflowed lands, to Isaac Seymour, of New York city, as trustee, to secure the payment of $800,000 of its bonds, which had been issued for the purpose of raising funds with which to construct a railroad.
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Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Wheeler v. Cloyd — Opinion of the Court

The liability of each one of the defendants under that decree can be neither increased nor diminished by any action on the part of any of his co-defendants. The right of every one of the defendants to appeal from the decree is separate and distinct from that of the other defendants. The amount adjudged against any one of them, in order that he might redeem his respective tract or tracts of land, does not in any case reach the amount necessary to give us jurisdiction to entertain the appeal.
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