Carroll v. Dorsey
Supreme Court of the United States
This ease was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, holden in and for the county of Washington.
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This ease was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia, holden in and for the county of Washington. A motion was made to dismiss it, by Mr. Bradley and Mr. Charles Lee Jones, for the following reasons, viz: That it is manifest, by the record filed in this court in the.said cause, that the judgment therein was rendered in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, at the October’ term of said court, in the year 1851. That the appeal bond filed therein bears date the 27th day of May, 1853; that the recital of the said bond sets…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
A motion has been made to dismiss this case, for want of jurisdiction.
It appears that an action of ejectment was brought by the plaintiffs in error against the defendants, in the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, and upon the trial the verdict and judgment was for the defendants.
The particular day on which the judgment was rendered is not given; but it is stated as a judgment on the third Monday in October, in the year 1851, which it appears was the first day of the term. But it also appears- that two exceptions were taken at the trial by the plaintiffs', one dated the 20th and the…
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