Minor v. President of Natchez
Mississippi Supreme Court
In error, from the Adams circuit court. John Doe, on the demise of William J. Minor, brought an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Adams county to the May term, 1842, thereof.
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In error, from the Adams circuit court. John Doe, on the demise of William J. Minor, brought an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Adams county to the May term, 1842, thereof. The notice was served on the president and selectmen of the city of Natchez, who appeared, entered into the consent rule, and plead not guilty. •A jury was empanelled, and the lessor of the plaintiff offered to read to the jury the record of a judgment in the United States circuit court for the southern district of Mississippi, at the suit of Reuben M. Strother, a.citizen of the state of Missouri, who sued for…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sharkey
delivered the following opinion.
The plaintiff in error brought ejectment for a lot of land in the city of Natchez, and to the opinion of the court in ruling out his title papers, he excepted.
He claimed title to the lot in controversy, as the purchaser at *620a sale made by the marshal of the southern district of Mississippi, and introduced the judgment and a fieri facias thereon, which was levied on the lot, but the sale was suspended by supersedeas. He also offered in evidence a venditioni exponas, under which the lot was sold, and the marshal’s return thereon, but the return was objected to,…
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