Lessee of Ewing v. Burnet
Supreme Court of the United States
IN error from the circuit court of the district of Ohio. The plaintiff in error instituted an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Ohio, at December term, 1834, against the defendant, to recover a lot. of ground in the city of Cincinnati. Both the plaintiff and the defendant claimed title under deeds from John Cleves Symmes, the original grantee of the United States, for all the land on which the city of Cincinnati is erected.
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IN error from the circuit court of the district of Ohio. The plaintiff in error instituted an action of ejectment in the circuit court of Ohio, at December term, 1834, against the defendant, to recover a lot. of ground in the city of Cincinnati. Both the plaintiff and the defendant claimed title under deeds from John Cleves Symmes, the original grantee of the United States, for all the land on which the city of Cincinnati is erected. The deed from Symmes, under which the plaintiff asserted his-title, was executed June. 11th, 1798, to Samuel Forman; the deed from Symmes to the defendant, for…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baldwin
In the court below, this was an action of ejectment, brought in November, 1834, by the lessor of the plaintiff, to recover possession of lot No. 209, in the city of Cincinnati; the legal title to which is admitted to have been in John Cleves Symmes, under whom both parties claimed: the plaintiff, by a deed dated 11th of June, 1798, to Samuel Foreman, who, on the next day, conveyed to Samuel Williams, whose right, after his death, became vested in the plaintiff: the defendant claimed by a deed to himself, dated 21st of May, 1803, and an adverse possession of twenty-one years before the…
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