Bryan v. Kennett
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE ' EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. This action, in form ejectment, involved the title to ah undivided half of a tract of land in the county of Washington, State of Missouri, containing six hundred and forty acres, part of a larger tract, containing seven, thousand one hundred and fifty-three arpents, or six thousand and eighty-five acres, known as the Mine á Breton survey, or as United States, survey, numbered 430, made…
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE ' EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI. This action, in form ejectment, involved the title to ah undivided half of a tract of land in the county of Washington, State of Missouri, containing six hundred and forty acres, part of a larger tract, containing seven, thousand one hundred and fifty-three arpents, or six thousand and eighty-five acres, known as the Mine á Breton survey, or as United States, survey, numbered 430, made in the name of Moses Austin, and dated August 14 and 15, 1817. In conformity with the instructions of the court, the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hablan
He recited the facts, as above stated, and continued:
The objection that the record does not show*a sufficient exception, upon the part of plaintiffs, to the instructions given to the jury, cannot be sustained. The series of propositions announced by the court, although styled instructions, embodies nothing more than the reasons that induced it to direct a verdict for the defendants. These propositions submitted no fact for the determination of the jury; for, they were accompanied by a peremptory instruction to return a verdict for the defendants. As the bill of exceptions contains all the…
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