Ayers v. Watson
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS. Ejectment. The ease is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
This case has been before us on two former occasions; in October term, 1884, (Ayers v. Watson, 113 U. S. 594,) and in October term, 1889 (Ayers v. Watson, 132 U. S. 394). It has had six trials by jury,-in three of which the juries disagreed, and in the other three verdicts were found for the plaintiff.
The case comes before us, as heretofore, on a bill of exceptions, and the first assignment of error relates to a matter of a preliminary character. When the cause came on for trial, the défendant below, Ayers, asked leave to file an amendment to his application for the removal of it from the…
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