Campbell v. Boyreau
Supreme Court of the United States
• This case was brought up by writ of error from the Oiréuit Court of the United States for the northern district of California.- The case having been decided by this court upon a point of practice, it is necessary to state only so much of it as to show how the point of practice arose.
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• This case was brought up by writ of error from the Oiréuit Court of the United States for the northern district of California.- The case having been decided by this court upon a point of practice, it is necessary to state only so much of it as to show how the point of practice arose. It was a suit in the nature of an ejectment, brought by Boyreau to recover all the undivided half of an undivided eighteenth part of that certain tract of land; rancho, or farm, known as the “ Rancho San Leandro,” situate in the county of Alameda, State aforesaid, bounded as follows: on the north by the San…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
This is an action of ejectment (although the pleadings, are not in the form' prescribed by the common law) to recover a tract of land called San Leandro, situated in California. It was brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for that district. The- parties agreed to waive a trial of the facts by a jury, and that the facts as well as the law should be. decided by the court, upon the evidence adduced by the parties.
In pursuance of this agreement, evidence was offered on. both sides ; and the court proceeded to decide the facts in dispute, and-then proceeded to decide the questions of…
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