Van Ness v. the Bank of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District .of Columbia, sitting for the county of Washington. This case came before the Court from the District of Columbia, and was argued by Coxe for the plaintiffs in error, and by Mr. Key for the, defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
The case is fully stated in the following opinion of the Court, delivered by
This case comes before'the Court upon a writ of error, directed to the judges of the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia, sitting for the county of Washington.
' ft is an. action of ejectment brought by the Bank of the United States, to recover sundry lots of ground in the city of Washington. The declaration contains four demises, purporting to have been made for the same, premises by different lessors. The jury found' for the plaintiff- upon one of -the demises, but said nothing of the other three; and the…
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