Steele's Lessee v. Spencer
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS was a writ of error to tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Ohio, to reverse the judgment of that Coúrtán favour of the defendant in error, in an action of ejectment instituted by the plaintiff in error, to recover a tract of land in Perry county, in the state of Ohio..
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THIS was a writ of error to tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Ohio, to reverse the judgment of that Coúrtán favour of the defendant in error, in an action of ejectment instituted by the plaintiff in error, to recover a tract of land in Perry county, in the state of Ohio.. The title claimed and exhibited by the plaintiff in the ejectment; was originally derived under a patent from the United States to Jesse Spencer, dated November 15th 1811; who with George Spencer and others, were the heirs at law of Thomas Spencer deceased; . and in . order to show the title…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thimble
delivered the .opinion of the Court;—
This writ of error is prosecuted to reverse a. judgment of the Circuit Court, for the district of Ohio, rendered in -favour of the defendants, in an action of ejectment instituted by the plaintiff in error against-the defendants, in the Court beiow, to recover a tract-of land in Perry county;
On the trial of the general issue, which-was joined between the parties, the "plaintiff gave in evidence a patent from the President of the United States to Jesse Spencer, dated the lííth of November 1811, for the land in controversy: a deed of conveyance for the land,…
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