Jackson Ex Dem. Bradstreet v. Huntington
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the District Court of the Northern District of New York. The plaintiff in error, in 1824, instituted an action of ejectment in the district court of the United States for the northern district of New York, for the recovery of a tract of land, situated in the village of Utica, and the county of Oneida, in the northern district of New York. The cause was tried at January term 1827, and a verdict and judgment were rendered for the defendant.
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Error to the District Court of the Northern District of New York. The plaintiff in error, in 1824, instituted an action of ejectment in the district court of the United States for the northern district of New York, for the recovery of a tract of land, situated in the village of Utica, and the county of Oneida, in the northern district of New York. The cause was tried at January term 1827, and a verdict and judgment were rendered for the defendant. The plaintiff excepted to the opinion of the court on various points of evidence and of law, presented in the course *of the trial, and the court…
1Opinion of the Court
Johnson, Justice,
delivered the opinion of the court. — The principles of law involved in this cause are few and simple, and well established ; and all the difficulties consist in so arranging the facts as to apply the principles correctly ; or rather to determine whether they have been correctly applied in the court below. The plaintiff here was plaintiff there, and the action being ejectment, a remedy rigidly legal, it behoved her to make out a title of the same character. The title made out by the plaintiff consisted :
1. Of a series of documentary and other evidence, received without…
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