Pillow v. Roberts
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The circumstances of the case, and the points of law upon which it came up to this court, are fully stated in its opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
Roberts, t-lie defendant in error, was plaintiff below, in an action of ejectment for 160 acres of land. Pillow, the defendant below, pleaded the general issue, and two special pleas: The first, setting forth a sale of the land in dispute, for taxes more than five years before suit brought: The second, pleading the statute of limitation of ten-years. These pleas were overruled' on special demurrer, as informal and insufficient; and the judgment of the court on this subject-is here alleged as error. But as the same matters of defence were afterwards offered to be laid before the jury on the…
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