Improvement Company v. Munson
Supreme Court of the United States
In error to the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; in which court, Munson and others brought ejectment against The Schuylkill and Dauphin Improvement Company and two other like companies, all corporations of Pennsylvania, to recover certain valuable lands in the State just named. Judgment having gone for the plaintiffs, the companies brought the case here.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
seated the case, and delivered the opinion of the court.
Rules of decision in the courts of the United States, as well as the forms and modes of process; are very largely derived from- the laws of the States as construed- by the decisions of the State courts, in cases where they apply, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States otherwise require or provide.
Controversy having arisen between the parties in respect to the title to the tract of land described in the record, the plaintiffs, on the sixth of February, 1866, brought an action of ejectment against the…
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