Cohn v. Hoffman
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL frbm Jackson Circuit Court. B,. H. Powell, Judge. This was an actiou of ejectment brought to recover three tracts of land and the mesne profits thereof. A judgment in favor of the plaintiff for all the lands described in his complaint, was reversed on a former appeal. See4^Ar/c., 376. The case having been remanded, the plaintiff, by leave of the court below, discontinued his action as to two of the tracts.
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APPEAL frbm Jackson Circuit Court. B,. H. Powell, Judge. This was an actiou of ejectment brought to recover three tracts of land and the mesne profits thereof. A judgment in favor of the plaintiff for all the lands described in his complaint, was reversed on a former appeal. See4^Ar/c., 376. The case having been remanded, the plaintiff, by leave of the court below, discontinued his action as to two of the tracts. He claimed title to the remaining tract by purchase made at an execution sale on the 24th day of October, 1881, under a judgment rendered against Pray, September 11th, 1878.…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Upon the remanding of this cause to the court below, Hoffman discontinued his action for the recovery of two of the tracts which had been in controversy, and amended his complaint by enlarging his claim for the mesne profits of the remaining tract to six hundred. dollars. The defendant disclaimed- title to the north half of the tract last mentioned, but pleaded that Bray, the common source of title to both parties, had purchased the south half from a railway company upon a credit, and about the first of November, 1880, had requested the defendant to pay the residue of purchase money then due,…
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