Lessee of Adams v. Jeffries
Ohio Supreme Court
This was an Action of Ejectment from Licking county, submitted to the court upon an agreed statement of facts. To support the plaintiff’s title, he offered in evidence— First: Proof that John Faulkner died seized of the tenements.
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This was an Action of Ejectment from Licking county, submitted to the court upon an agreed statement of facts. To support the plaintiff’s title, he offered in evidence— First: Proof that John Faulkner died seized of the tenements. Second : An order of sale to his administrator, from the Common Pleas of Franklin county, in April, 1833, which, after reciting ^that the case came on to be heard on an agreed statement of [254 facts, and the court, being satisfied that the estate of Faulkner was insolvent, orders the premises to be sold. Further proceedings show a regular sale, confirmation, order…
1Opinion of the CourtLane, C. J.
The validity of transfers of land, by virtue of legal proceedings, are frequent subjects of examination in courts of justice. The governing principle in these eases, is, that whoever assumes to exercise powers conferred by law, must first show jurisdiction over the subject
The judicial proceedings of courts of general jurisdiction, exer*272cising the ordinary powers of chancery or of common law, are presumed to he regular, and such courts are presumed to act within the scope of their authority. Every intendment will be made to support their powers. Yet, even in the proceedings of these courts, if…
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