Winn v. Patterson
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the district of Georgia. In February 1820, an action of ejectment was instituted in the circuit court, by the lessee of William Patterson against Elisha Winn and others, to recover a tract of land in the county of Franklin, in the state of .Georgia. The case has been twice before this court on , a writ of error.. 11 Wheat 380, 6 Cond.
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IN error to the circuit court of the United States for the district of Georgia. In February 1820, an action of ejectment was instituted in the circuit court, by the lessee of William Patterson against Elisha Winn and others, to recover a tract of land in the county of Franklin, in the state of .Georgia. The case has been twice before this court on , a writ of error.. 11 Wheat 380, 6 Cond. Rep. 355; arid 8 Peters 233. Many of the material facts iri^he case will be found in the reports referred tc At November term 1833, of the circuit court, in pursuance of the mandate of this court, a new…
1Opinion of the Court
. Mr Justice Story
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is á writ of error to the circuit court of the district of Georgia., The cause, which is an ejectment, has been twice before this’ court, and the decisions then had, will be found reported in IT Wheat. Rep. 33,0, and 5 Peters’s Rep. 233; to which we may therefore refer, as containing a statement of many of the material'facts.
At the neW trial had in November term 1833, in pursuance of the mandate of this court. The plaintiff, to maintain the issue on his part, gave in evidence a copy of a grant from the state of Georgia to Basil Jones,…
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