Palmer v. Palmer
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided by the court En Banc. Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Duval county. Statement. The defendant in error sued the plaintiff in error in ejectment in the Circuit Court of Duval county for recovery of several lots of land lying contiguously to each other in the village of South Jacksonville, an un-incorporated community, in said county, containing in the aggregate one acre of ground.
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This case was decided by the court En Banc. Writ of error to the Circuit Court for Duval county. Statement. The defendant in error sued the plaintiff in error in ejectment in the Circuit Court of Duval county for recovery of several lots of land lying contiguously to each other in the village of South Jacksonville, an un-incorporated community, in said county, containing in the aggregate one acre of ground. The trial was had upon the plea of the general issue, and resulted, after an affirmative charge by the court in favor of the plaintiff, in a -verdict and judgment • for the plaintiff for…
1Opinion of the CourtTayror, C. J.
(after stating the facts). On rehearing. — Various errors are assigned relative to the admission and rejection of evidence, but we deem them unimportant, and will proceed at once to a discussion of the merits of the real question at issue between the parties, basing the discussion upon the propriety of the affirmative charge given by the court to the jury, instructing them under the facts in the case, as stated above, to find the right of possession and property in the plaintiff.
To sustain this charge and the judgment consequent thereon it is earnestly contended here for the defendant in…
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