Murphy v. Hindman
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from Riley District Court. Hon. R. B. Spilman, Judge. This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiffs in error in the District Court of Wabaunsee County to recover of the defendant in error eighty acres of land. A trial in September, 1883, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs. The court set aside the verdict and granted the defendant a new trial; and upon error this court affirmed that order.
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Error from Riley District Court. Hon. R. B. Spilman, Judge. This was an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiffs in error in the District Court of Wabaunsee County to recover of the defendant in error eighty acres of land. A trial in September, 1883, resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs. The court set aside the verdict and granted the defendant a new trial; and upon error this court affirmed that order. Murphy v. Hindman, 37 Kan. 267. The new trial resulted in a verdict for the defendant, and this having been set aside, the case was sent to the District Court of Riley County, on…
1Opinion of the CourtJohnston, J.
*1861. Party may testify that lie had no transaction witii deceased *185Several years ago, this same controversy was before this court for consideration. Murphy v. Hindman, 37 Kan. 267. In the subsequent trial of the case, as in the first one, it was claimed by the plaintiffs that, in 1877, Catharine Hindman, by the name of Catharine McMillan, executed a deed conveying the land to John Campbell, in his lifetime,but that she afterward obtained possession of the deed and destroyed it. The defendant claimed that she never made such an instrument, and, in answer to an inquiry by her counsel, she was…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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