Fletcher v. Fuller
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE ■ DISTRICT OE RHODE ISLAND. Ejectment for a tract of land in Rhode Island. Yerdict for .plaintiff, and judgment on the verdict. Defendants sued out this writ of error. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. cited: Lehigh Valley Railroad v. McFarlan, 43 N. J. Law, 605 Hillary v. Waller, 12 Ves. 239, 252; Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 503 [S. C. 39 Am.
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ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE ■ DISTRICT OE RHODE ISLAND. Ejectment for a tract of land in Rhode Island. Yerdict for .plaintiff, and judgment on the verdict. Defendants sued out this writ of error. The case is stated in the opinion of the court. cited: Lehigh Valley Railroad v. McFarlan, 43 N. J. Law, 605 Hillary v. Waller, 12 Ves. 239, 252; Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill 430, 503 [S. C. 39 Am. Dec. 658]; Sumner v. Child, 2 Conn. 607; Williams v. Donell, 2 Head, 695; Coolidge v. Learned, 8 Pick. 504; Durara v. Ritchie, 4 Mason, 45 ; Clarke v. Cross, 2 R. I. 440;…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This is ah action of ejectment to recover possession of twenty-seven twenty-eighths undiyided parts of a tract of land, containing about- fourteen acres, situated in the . town of Lincoln, formerly. Smithfield, in- the state of Rhode Island. The plaintiff, a citizen of Connecticut, sues the defendants,', citizens of Rhode Island, in his own right and as trustee for othérs. .
' The declaration contains several counts, all of which exdept two are withdrawn. In these the plaintiff alleges that on the 25th of October, 1874, he was “seized and possessed in his demense as of fee in his own right and…
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