Whittle v. Artis
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Ohio
At Law. These were actions of ejectment The first-entitled case arose in tbe eastern, division, and the second in the western division, of this district, They are now heal’d together on motion® to dismiss.
1Opinion of the Court
SAGE, District Judge.
These cases involve the same questions. They are in ejectment against cotenants for an undivided interest in lands. Some of the plaintiffs are citizens and residents of Virginia, and others, of Maryland. In each petition, as it originally stood, partition at law was also sought, and Jane Barr and her husband, David Barr, citizens and residents of the District of Columbia, were joined as plaintiffs; all the defendants being citizens and residents of the southern district of Ohio. Upon the defendants’ objection, under a special appearance for that purpose only, this joinder…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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