Legal Opinion · Dissent

Lessee of Good v. Zercher

Ohio Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1843Published

This is an action of Ejectment from Columbiana county, upon an agreed statement of facts. The material facts and points made are stated in the opinion of. the-court.

1DissentBirchard, Judge

This is an ejectment, brought originally in the Court of Common Pleas, where the plaintiff recovered, and the defendant appealed to this court. The case depends upon the validity of a deed executed by George Zercher, and Elizabeth his wife, to John Glass, for the conveyance of one hundred and fifty acres of land, for the sum of $550, paid in hand, on the 9th day of April, 1828. The deed was in due form, and would have passed the title of Elizabeth Zercher, if the certificate of acknowledgment by the magistrate had been indorsed upon it in due form.

The law in force at the time was the act of…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Watson v. MercerSupreme Court of the United States · 1834
  2. Bank of Hamilton v. Lessee of DudleySupreme Court of the United States · 1829
  3. Foster v. President of the Essex BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1819
  4. Bond v. AppletonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1812
  5. Underwood v. LillySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1823

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