Moelle v. Sherwood
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA. This ivas a suit in equity, commenced in June, 1885, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska, to quiet the title of the complainant to certain real property described in the bill as the southeast -J of section No. 31, township No. T> north, of range 8 east, of the 6th principal meridian, in Nuckolls County, State of Nebraska, to which the defendant, a citizen of…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEBRASKA. This ivas a suit in equity, commenced in June, 1885, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska, to quiet the title of the complainant to certain real property described in the bill as the southeast -J of section No. 31, township No. T> north, of range 8 east, of the 6th principal meridian, in Nuckolls County, State of Nebraska, to which the defendant, a citizen of that State, claimed some adverse interest and title. The bill alleged that the complainant was a citizen of New York, and…
1Opinion of the Court
• Mr. Justice Field,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
The appellant asks for a reversal of the decree .below on two groundsfirst, that the petition for a rehearing was allowed and a rehearing had after the adjournment of the court for the term in which the original decree was rendered.; and second, that the decree as finally rendered was against the settled law as to the effect of the quitclaim deed through which the complainant claims.
■ As ^a general thing, the jurisdiction of a court over its decrees terminates with the close of the term at which they were rendered.…
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