Hartley v. Ferrell
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Tallahassee. Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. This was an action of ejectment instituted by tlie defendant in error to recover of tlie plaintiff in error the premises described in the declaration.
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This case was decided at Tallahassee. Appeal from Madison Circuit Court. This was an action of ejectment instituted by tlie defendant in error to recover of tlie plaintiff in error the premises described in the declaration. The chain of title set fortli by tlie plaintiff below was : first, a deed from the Sheriff of Madison County for tbe larger portion of said lands, and a United States patent, to one Sarah C. Scott; second, a deed executed by Sarah C. Scott and husband, conveying all of said lands to Lavinia C. Sellars ; third, a deed from Lavinia C. Sellars and her husband, John ~W.…
1Opinion of the Court
DuPONT, C. J.,
delivered tlie opinion of the Court.
This ivas an action of ejectment, instituted in the Circuit Court of Madison County, by the defendant in error, to recover of the plaintiff in error the possession of certain premises described and set forth in the declaration.
At the trial of the cause, the plaintiff below offered in evidence, as a link in the chair of title, a Sheriff’s deed for a portion of the land in controversy, which had been made in virtue of a judicial sale of the premises, as the property of one Holland, who was in possession at the time of the sale. The defendant’s…
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