Davis v. Freeland's Lessee
Mississippi Supreme Court
IN error to the Circuit Court of Warren county. Hon. Richard Barnet, judge. The facts necessary to be stated will be found in the opinion of the court. This cause was first argued and submitted in this court, at the April term, A. D. 1855, and was, at the same term, reversed. A petition for a re-argument was filed, and a re-argument granted.
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IN error to the Circuit Court of Warren county. Hon. Richard Barnet, judge. The facts necessary to be stated will be found in the opinion of the court. This cause was first argued and submitted in this court, at the April term, A. D. 1855, and was, at the same term, reversed. A petition for a re-argument was filed, and a re-argument granted. It was again argued and submitted at the April term, A. D. 1856. At the present term, the opinion of this court was delivered on the re-argument, it being the same as that delivered on the first argument of the cause. Upon the points discussed in the…
1Opinion of the Court
HáNDY, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was an action of ejectment brought in the Circuit Court of Warren county, by the defendant in error, in which a verdict and judgment were -rendered in his favor.
In the progress of the trial many questions were raised, and decided by the court, and exceptions taken thereto. But we deem it necessary to consider only the question which lies at the thresh-hold of the case, which is, whether the plaintiff’s lessor showed a sufficient legal title to enable him to recover in ejectment.
In support of his title, the plaintiff offered in evidence, two…
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