Howard v. Railway Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit' Court of tbe United States for tbe Eastern District of Wisconsin. . Tbis is an action of ejectment brought by Charles Howard against tbe Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, to recover certain parcels of ground on which the defendant’s railway and depots in tbe city of Milwaukee' are situate.
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Error to tbe Circuit' Court of tbe United States for tbe Eastern District of Wisconsin. . Tbis is an action of ejectment brought by Charles Howard against tbe Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, to recover certain parcels of ground on which the defendant’s railway and depots in tbe city of Milwaukee' are situate. The La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company constructed tbis end of its road in 1853-54, and erected its passenger and freight depots and its warehouses and.road tracks in that city on the demanded premises. The latter have been in- use since 1856 for railway purposes. Howard…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Possession of the lands in controversy was held by the defendants at the time laid in the declaration, as the road-bed, depot site,-and other structures of their railroad, at the described locality, and the plaintiff brought ejectment to recover the premises, claiming title to the same by purchase at a sheriff’s sale by virtue of a seizure to satisfy a judgment recovered in the name of Sebre Howard against the original company owning and • operating the railroad and under which both parties claim title.
Sufficient appears to show that the company became indebted to the judgment creditor in the…
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