Stringer v. Lessee of Young
Supreme Court of the United States
'ERROR to the district court of the western district of Virginia. This was an ejjectmént brought.by,the defendants, agains^, the plaintiffs in error, in,the district court of the United' States for the western district of Virginia, exercising circuit bourt powers, for the recovery of a tract of four thousand acres of land in the said district, being a tract lying in the north-east corner of a large connexion of surveys made together, owned by Reed and Ford, the said Youngs,…
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'ERROR to the district court of the western district of Virginia. This was an ejjectmént brought.by,the defendants, agains^, the plaintiffs in error, in,the district court of the United' States for the western district of Virginia, exercising circuit bourt powers, for the recovery of a tract of four thousand acres of land in the said district, being a tract lying in the north-east corner of a large connexion of surveys made together, owned by Reed and Ford, the said Youngs, Thomas Lardley, and.others; some in one name and some in others, as appearing by the surveyor’s diagram. There was ¿…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr Chief Justice. Marshall
delivered the opinión of the Court.. This was an ejectment brought in the court of the United States for the western district of Virginia. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs, on which the judgment of the court was rendered j which judgment has been brought to .this court by writ of error. At the trial, three bills T>f exception were taken to opinions, given by the court to the jury, and the cause depends on the correctness of these opinions. The first bill of exceptions is in substance; the plaintiffs at the trial of this cause produced a grant, (setting it…
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