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Voorhees v. Jackson ex dem. President of the Bank of the United States

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 15, 1836PublishedCited by 46 opinions

IN error to the circuit, court of the'United States, for (he district of Ohio. The President and Directors of the Bank of the United States instituted an action of ejectment in 1831, for the recovery of a tract of land in the. county of Hamilton, in the state of.Ohio.

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IN error to the circuit, court of the'United States, for (he district of Ohio. The President and Directors of the Bank of the United States instituted an action of ejectment in 1831, for the recovery of a tract of land in the. county of Hamilton, in the state of.Ohio. On the trial of the case, in order to establish their title, they gave in evidence to the jury the proceedings in an attachment against Seth Cutter, in the county court of'Hamilton county, commenced in. 1807; under which the tra9t of land in the ejectment was sold, in 1808, and the sale returned by the auditors appointed by the…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baldwin

Court.

This case comes up by a writ of error from the circuit court for the district of Ohio, to reverse a judgment in an action of ejectment, obtained by the defendants against the plaintiffs in error. The sole question in the court below, was the validity of a sale of the premises in controversy, under a judgment of the court of common pleas of Hamilton county, Ohio, in a case of foreign attachment, rendered against Seth Cutter in 1868 at the suit of Samuel Foster. By the record in that case it appears, that the writ was returnable to April term 1807. It recited that the plaintiff had…

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