Liddon v. Hodnett
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Jackson county. The action is ejectment for the recovery of certain tracts and parcels of laud in the above county, viz: “ Thirty acres of land, being a strip or parcel of land being situated and extending across from north to south two hundred and twenty yards wide from the western boundary of the following subdivisions of sections, namely : the SE quarter of sec. 20, and NW quarter of NE quarter of sec. 29, all of T. 3, R. 7, and also all…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Jackson county. The action is ejectment for the recovery of certain tracts and parcels of laud in the above county, viz: “ Thirty acres of land, being a strip or parcel of land being situated and extending across from north to south two hundred and twenty yards wide from the western boundary of the following subdivisions of sections, namely : the SE quarter of sec. 20, and NW quarter of NE quarter of sec. 29, all of T. 3, R. 7, and also all the land west of, contiguous to, and adjoining said sub-divisions of. sections, and which, until during the month of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Raney
This is an action of ejectment instituted by Benj. S. Liddon, Francis B. Liddon and Thomas B. Liddon, appellants, in Jackson Circuit Court in July, 1884. There was a verdict for the defendant, and judgment having been entered thereon the plaintiffs appealed.
I. The first alleged error is the refusal of the Circuit Judge to admit in evidence certain certified copies of patents from the General Laud Office of the United States offered by plaiutiffs.
Upon the trial the plaintiffs read to the jury without objection a deed dated October 12, 1877, from Isaac H. Stone to Benjamin S. Liddon, conveying…
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