Mumford v. Wardwell
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of California. Mumford — plaintiff both below and in error here — brought ejectment against Wardwell for a “ one hundred-v&va, lot,” No. 186 on the official map of San Francisco. Plea, possession as owner under a good title.
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Error to the Circuit Court for the Northern District of California. Mumford — plaintiff both below and in error here — brought ejectment against Wardwell for a “ one hundred-v&va, lot,” No. 186 on the official map of San Francisco. Plea, possession as owner under a good title. The record showed that the case was set down on that issue for trial August 26th, 1863, when the jury found a verdict in these words: J. E. Mumford v. C. Otis Wardwell, United States Circuit Court, Northern District of California. We, the jury, find a verdict for the plaintiff, subject to the opin ion of the court.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Plaintiff brought ejectment against the defendant to recover possession of a certain tract of land situated in the city of San Francisco, describing it by metes and bounds, and as the one hundred-vara lot numbered one hundred and eighty-six, as laid down and represented on the official map of the city. Defendant pleaded that he was in the possession of the lot as owner under a good title, which the plaintiff in his replication denied. Parties went to trial upon that issue, and the jury impanelled to try the issue returned the following verdict, as appears by the record: We, the jury, find a…
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