Ooe, Ex Demise of Patterson v. Winn and Others
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Circuit Court of Georgia. This was an action of ejectment, brought to May term 1820, of the circuit court of the United States for the . district of Georgia, to recover a tract of land, containing *7300 acres, J lying in that part of the county of Gwinnett, which was formerly a portion of Franklin county.
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Error to the Circuit Court of Georgia. This was an action of ejectment, brought to May term 1820, of the circuit court of the United States for the . district of Georgia, to recover a tract of land, containing *7300 acres, J lying in that part of the county of Gwinnett, which was formerly a portion of Franklin county. On the trial, at Milledgeville, at November term 1829, the plaintiff offered in evidence, the copy of a grant or patent from the state of Georgia, to- Basil Jones, for the land in question, duly certified from the original record or register of grants, in the secretary of…
1Opinion of the Court
Story, Justice,
delivered the opinion of the court. — This case comes before the court by a writ of error to the circuit court for the district of Georgia. The original action was an ejectment, brought by the plaintiff in error, against the defendants ; and at the trial in November term 1829, a bill of exceptions was taken, which raises the only questions which are now before us for consideration.
The-bill of exceptions states, that the plaintiff offered in evidence, in support of his title, an exemplification, under the seal of the state of Georgia, of a grant or patent to Basil Jones, of a…
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