Gibson v. Lyon
Supreme Court of the United States
IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED. STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. This was an action of ejectment to recover possession of certain real estate in Philadelphia, brought by the plaintiff in error, a citizen of New Jersey, against the defendants in error, citizens of Pennsylvania, in which there was judgment for the defendants below, which was brought here for review by this writ of error.
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IN ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED. STATES FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. This was an action of ejectment to recover possession of certain real estate in Philadelphia, brought by the plaintiff in error, a citizen of New Jersey, against the defendants in error, citizens of Pennsylvania, in which there was judgment for the defendants below, which was brought here for review by this writ of error. The cause was submitted to the court, on the trial below, a jury being waived in writing, where judgment was rendered upon the following findings of fact: 1. In 1861 George "W.…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
After stating the facts in the language above reported, he continued :
Before proceeding to consider this case, as presented by -the findings of fact, it is necessary to dispose of an assignment of error based on a ruling of the Circuit Court during the progress of the trial. It appears from a bill of exceptions that “the plaintiff offered to prove that a tender of the money, under decree of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, in suit No. 60, January term, 1868, was made about the end of May, 1869, by Charles II. Muirhead; that the assignment was returned from Lyon and Taylor executed in blank;…
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