Welch v. Lynch
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendants from a judgment on verdict of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in. two actions of ejectment consolidated for trial. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in two actions-of ejectment that were consolidated for trial in the supreme-court of the District of Columbia.
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendants from a judgment on verdict of tbe Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in. two actions of ejectment consolidated for trial. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: This is an appeal from a judgment rendered in two actions-of ejectment that were consolidated for trial in the supreme-court of the District of Columbia. The first action was begun on June 22, 1899, by Mary Ann McGee and a number of others against William M. Cherry and Pliny T. Moran, partners under the name and style of Cherry & Moran Company, to recover possession of an…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
1. The first error that has been assigned relates to the proceedings in the cases under rule 39 of the trial court, commonly called the stet rule. The contention is that, by the operation of that rule, the court lost jurisdiction to try the cases. The rule was devised to facilitate trials by relieving the calendar of cases the prosecution of which was not being pressed for any reason. The rule provides that in all cases on the trial calendar not otherwise disposed of by the end of the third term after issue joined (unless under special circumstances not occurring here) there shall be entered…
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