Games v. Stiles Ex Dem. Dunn
Supreme Court of the United States
IN. error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio. In 1836, the lessee of the defendants in error instituted an action of ejectment against the plaintiffs in error, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, for a tract of land lying between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, in that part of the state of Ohio known as the Virginia Military District, being on a survey under a part of a military land, warrant for one…
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IN. error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio. In 1836, the lessee of the defendants in error instituted an action of ejectment against the plaintiffs in error, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Ohio, for a tract of land lying between the Little Miami and Sciota rivers, in that part of the state of Ohio known as the Virginia Military District, being on a survey under a part of a military land, warrant for one thousand acres. The cause was tried at July term, 1838, and a verdict and judgment were, entered for the plaintiffs in the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice M'Lean
This .case is brought before this Court .from the Circuit Court of Ohio, by a writ of error.
An action of ejectment was brought by Dunn against the defendants, in the Circuit Court, for the recovery of a certain tract of land; and on the trial, exceptions were taken to the rulings of the Court,' which being the points decided before this Court.
The first objection taken was, that the deed offered in evidence by'the plaintiff from David Carrick Buchanan to Walter Sterling, recited the proceedings and decree of a Court of the United States, for the. fifth circuit, and Virginia district, &c., and…
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